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The Transactions Theory of the Demand for Money: A Reconsideration

Robert W. Clower; Peter W. Howitt

Journal of Political Economy 1978

This paper deals with a class of models of the demand for money that includes the Baumol-Tobin and other inventory-theoretic models as special cases. Among other things, the analysis shows that many supposedly robust comparative-statics propositions derived by earlier writers do not survive even modest generalization. More generally, the results of the paper strongly reinforce other recent research in indicating the need for a wholesale reconstruction of the microfoundations of contemporary monetary theory.

DOI
10.1086/260681
Volume
86 (3)
Pages
449-466
Language
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