M P RA Measuring the Economic Stock of Money Measuring the Economic Stock of Money

Munich Personal, Repec Archive, Logan Kelly, Logan Kelly
2007 unpublished
Aggregation theoretic measures of the economic stock of money (ESM) have been criticized for their dependence on future expectations. I answer some of those objections by using several forecasting methods to generate the expectations needed for calculating the ESM. I nd that targeted factor model forecasting improves the accuracy of the measurement of the ESM but also that measurement of the ESM is robust to assumptions about future expectation. These ndings suggest that concerns about the
more » ... dency of theoretical monetary stock aggregates on forecasted future expectations may have been overstated.
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