Microfoundations for a stable demand for money function.
Part of a special section on the search for microfoundations and the demand for money. The buffer stock approach, which explains the demand for money in the context of individual optimization and the microeconomics of adjustment in the market for money, has gone further than other approaches in dea...
| Publicado en: | Economic Journal Vol. 107; pp. 1202 - 1213 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
July 1997
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| Sumario: | Part of a special section on the search for microfoundations and the demand for money. The buffer stock approach, which explains the demand for money in the context of individual optimization and the microeconomics of adjustment in the market for money, has gone further than other approaches in dealing with the fundamental microfoundations of the demand for money. The buffer stock model has firm microfoundations that can explain the events both before and after the breakdown of the partial adjustment model. Due to its sound microfoundations, the buffer stock model has been able to save the demand for money function and establish its stability after breakdown of the partial adjustment model. Only the buffer stock specifies the demand for money in a realistic way as the interaction of optimizing individuals in a market linking the past to the present and the future. The willingness to adopt a theoretically robust model that is nevertheless applicable to the real world is the distinguishing feature of this model over other alternatives. |
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