Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83972 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2005/7
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
The paper estimates the money demand in Croatia using monthly data from 1994 to 2002. A failure of the Fisher equation is found and adjustment to the standard money demand function is made to include the inflation rate as well as the nominal interest rate. In a two-equation cointegrated system, a stable money demand shows rapid convergence back to equilibrium after shocks. This function performs better than an alternative using the exchange rate instead of the inflation rate, as in the pass-through literature on exchange rates. The results provide a basis for inflaton rate forecasting and suggest the ability to use inflation targeting goals in transition countries during the EU accession process. Finding a stable money demand also limits the scope for central bank inflation bias.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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