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Title

The demand for money in Malaysia : a study of M2 / Subramanian Sivaraman Sriram.

Author

Sriram, Subramanian S.

Publication

Bangalore, India : Southern Economist, 2000.

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Description

xxiv, 471 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Demand for money > Malaysia > Econometric models
• Money supply > Malaysia > Econometric models

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-471).

Contents

Introduction and findings -- Macroeconomic overview. Introduction ; Balance of payments ; Exchange rates ; Interest rates ; Monetary policy ; Public finance and fiscal policy ; External debt ; Economic situation after the recession ; Conclusions -- Financial system. Introduction ; Structure of the financial system ; Financial deepening ; Conclusions -- Demand for money : literature review. Introduction ; Theory ; Empirical analysis -- Model formation. Introduction ; Literature review on demand for money in Malaysia ; General specification of demand for money in a closed economy ; General specification of demand for money in an open economy ; Data issues ; Expected signs of the coefficients of the variables ; Variable selection and formulation of closed-economy model for Malaysia ; Variable selection and open-economy type model for Malaysia ; Data sources ; Conclusions -- Model Estimation. Introduction ; Unit root tests ; Estimating money demand equations ; Conclusions -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix. Financial reforms in Malaysia ; Central banking in Malaysia ; Brief description of selected monetary and nonmonetary institutions ; Cointegration and error-correction mechanism ; Original formulation of the closed-economy version of demand for Real M2 : PcFiml 9.0 output for cointegration test results ; Original formulation of the closed-economy version of demand for Real M2 : PcFiml 9.0 output for weak-exogeneity test results ; Original formulation of the closed-economy version of demand for Real M2 : PcFiml 9.0 output for short-run model ; Alternative formulation of the closed-economy version of demand for Real M2 : PcFiml 9.0 output for cointegration test results ; Alternative formulation of the closed-economy version of demand for Real M2 : PcFiml 9.0 output for weak-exogeneity test results ; Alternative formulation of the closed-economy version of demand for Real M2 : PcFiml 9.0 output for short-run model ; Open-economy formulation of demand for Real M2 : PcFiml 9.0 output for cointegration test results

ISBN

• 9788190124805 (pbk.)
• 8190124803 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm46869070
• 46869070
• SCSB-5702417

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Columbia University Libraries