Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123605 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/13/032
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Economic theory traditionally suggests that monetary policy can influence the business cycle, but not the long-run potential output. Despite well documented theoretical and empirical consensus on money neutrality in the literature, the role of money as an informational variable for monetary policy decision has remained opened to debate with empirical works providing mixed outcomes. This paper addresses two substantial challenges to this debate: the neglect of developing countries in the literature and the use of new financial dynamic fundamentals that broadly reflect monetary policy. The empirics are based on annual data from 34 African countries for the period 1980 to 2010. Using a battery of tests for integration and long-run equilibrium properties, results offer overall support for the traditional economic theory.
Subjects: 
Monetary policy
Credit
Empirics
Africa
JEL: 
E51
E52
E58
E59
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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