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ENDOGENOUSLY SEGMENTED ASSET MARKET IN AN INVENTORY-THEORETIC MODEL OF MONEY DEMAND

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2012

Jonathan Chiu
Jonathan Chiu*
Affiliation:
Bank of Canada
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Address correspondence to: Jonathan Chiu, 234 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G9, Canada; e-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

This paper studies the effects of monetary policy in an inventory-theoretic model of money demand. In this model, agents keep inventories of money, despite the fact that money is dominated in rate of return by interest-bearing assets, because they must pay a fixed cost to transfer funds between the asset market and the goods market. In contrast to exogenous segmentation models in the literature, the timing of money transfers is endogenous. As a result, the model endogenizes the degree of market segmentation as well as the magnitudes of liquidity effects, price sluggishness, and the variability of velocity. I first show that the endogenous segmentation model can generate the positive long-run relationship between money growth and velocity observed in the data, which the exogenous segmentation model fails to capture. I also show that the short-run effects of money shocks on prices, inflation, and nominal interest rates are not robust.

Keywords

InflationLiquidity EffectInventory TheoryMoney Demand
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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , March 2014 , pp. 438 - 472
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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