Serletis The Demand for Money

Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-71727-2
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 382 Seiten, eBook

This is the most comprehensive textbook available on the money demand function and its role in modern macroeconomics. The book takes a microeconomic- and aggregation-theoretic approach to the topic and presents empirical evidence using state-of-the-art econometric methodology, while recognizing the existence of unsolved problems and the need for further developments. The new edition is fully revised and includes new chapters.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Serletis, Apostolos

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Foreword.- Introduction.- Classical Macroeconomc Theory.- Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory.- Dynamic Optimization Methods in Discrete Time.- Neoclassical Growth Theory.- Monetary Growth Theory.- The Demand for Money and the Welfare Cost of Inflation.- The Classics, Keynes, and Friedman.- Transactions Theories of Money Demand.- Portfolio Theories of Money Demand.- Conventional Money Demand Functions.- Modeling Trends.- Cointegration and the Demand for Money.- Balanced Growth and the Demand for Money.- Cross Country Evidence.- Microeconomic Foundations.- The New Monetary Aggregates.- Nominal Stylized Facts.- The Nonparametric Approach to Demand Analysis.- The Parametric Approach to Demand Analysis.- Locally Flexible Functional Forms and Demand Systems.- Globally flexible Functional Forms and Demand Systems.- The Econometrics of Demand Systems.- Applied Monetary Demand Analysis.- Future Research Agenda.- References.- Author Index.- Topic Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Apostolos Serletis is University Professor and Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Calgary. Since receiving his Ph.D. from McMaster University in 1984, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Texas at Austin, the Athens University of Economics and Business, and the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Professor Serletis’ teaching and research focus on monetary and financial economics, macroeconometrics, and nonlinear and complex dynamics. He is the author of eight books, including The Theory of Monetary Aggregation, co-edited with William A. Barnett (Elsevier 2000), Financial Markets and Institutions: First Canadian Edition, with Frederic S. Mishkin and Stanley G. Eakins (Addison Wesley 2004), Money and the Economy (World Scientific 2006), The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: Third Canadian Edition, with Frederic S. Mishkin (Addison Wesley 2007), Functional Structure Inference, co-edited with William A. Barnett (Elsevier 2007), and Quantitative and Empirical Analysis of Energy Markets (World Scientific 2007).

In addition, he has published close to 150 articles in such journals as the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Econometrics, the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Professor Serletis is an Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics and a member of the editorial board at two academic journals, the Journal of Economic Asymmetries and the Journal of Economic Studies. He lives in Calgary, with his wife Aglaia.