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Transactions Demand for Money with a Stochastic, Time-Varying Interest Rate

Review of Economic Studies 1989 56(4), 623
This paper considers a stochastic, time-varying interest rate in a continuous-time, inventory-theoretic model of the demand for money. The problem of minimizing expected, discounted cash-management costs is ascribed to an agent. An optimal cash-management policy exists and is of a familiar target-threshold form. Closed-form expressions for the forward-looking, time-varying targets and thresholds are derived in special cases and implications for the dynamics of the cash balance are described.