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In this chapter we consider and illustrate a solution to the inter-related problems of monetary aggregation and estimation of money demand functions. In doing so, we use quarterly U.S. data and take a demand systems approach. We handle the problem in three stages: (i) we apply revealed preference tests to determine admissible and separable components; (ii) we aggregate these components using a superlative index — the Divisia index; and (iii) we use the basic translog demand system to deal with the problem of money demand.
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Notice that in the data set available by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Super NOW accounts are reported separately from other checkable deposits for the period 1983:1–1985:4 — after 1985, they are included in other checkable deposits. Because the NONPAR tests can only be performed over a constant number of assets, for the period 1983:1–1985:4 we included (using a simple summation) Super NOW accounts in other checkable deposits and calculated the relevant user cost series as a weighted average. We did the same with money market deposit accounts (at commercial banks and thrifts) which for the 1982:4–1991:2 period are reported separately from savings deposits.
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Serletis, A. (2001). Applied Monetary Demand Analysis. In: The Demand for Money. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3320-4_19
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