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MONEY SUPPLY VOLATILITY AND THE MACROECONOMY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2019

Apostolos Serletis*
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
Libo Xu
Affiliation:
University of San Francisco
*
Address correspondence to: Apostolos Serletis, Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada. e-mail: Serletis@ucalgary.ca. Phone: (403) 220-4092. Fax: (403) 282-5262.

Abstract

This paper extends the ongoing literature on the macroeconomic effects of money supply volatility. We use monthly data for the USA and a bivariate, Markov switching, structural vector error correction model that is modified to accommodate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity-in-mean errors to isolate the effects of money growth volatility on output growth. The model allows us to study how monetary uncertainty affects economic growth across different macroeconomic regimes.

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© 2019 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

We would like to thank two anonymous referees for excellent comments that greatly improved the paper. Web: http://econ.ucalgary.ca/profiles/162-33618

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