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Japanese Money Demand from the Regional Data: An Update and Some Additional Results

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  • Hiroshi Fujiki

    (Associate Director-General and Senior Economist, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan (currently Chuo University, E-mail: fujiki@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp))

Abstract

We cross-sectionally estimate the income elasticity of money demand using Japanese prefectural deposit statistics and Japanese prefectural accounts statistics from fiscal 1955 to 2009 based on the structural model of Fujiki and Mulligan (1996a). In doing so, we update the results of Fujiki and Mulligan (1996b) using a similar data set from fiscal 1955 to 1990. Our analyses using the sample period of the 1980s confirm the finding of Fujiki and Mulligan (1996b) that the cross- sectional income elasticities of the sum of demand deposits and interest- bearing deposits, similar to the M2 statistics, range from 1.2 to 1.4. Our analysis using the sample period after fiscal 1990 shows that the cross-sectional income elasticities decrease gradually over time, and reach the value of 0.93 in fiscal 2003. Our analysis using data from fiscal 2004 to 2009 shows that the crosssectional income elasticities take a value from 0.6 to 0.7. These results, taken at face value, suggest that households and firms save the monetary inputs for their production activities over time: the additional demand for money for an additional unit of production activity increased by more than one unit by the 1990s, while it increased by less than one unit after 2000.

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  • Hiroshi Fujiki, 2014. "Japanese Money Demand from the Regional Data: An Update and Some Additional Results," Monetary and Economic Studies, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, vol. 32, pages 45-102, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ime:imemes:v:32:y:2014:p:45-102
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    1. Fujiki, Hiroshi, 2024. "The rise of internet-only banks: Analyzing the bias in cross-prefectural money demand elasticity," Japan and the World Economy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    2. Geoffrey R. Dunbar, 2019. "Demographics and the demand for currency," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 57(4), pages 1375-1409, October.
    3. Nicholas Apergis, 2015. "Long-run estimates of money demand: new evidence from East Asian countries and the presence of structural breaks," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(31), pages 3276-3291, July.

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    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements

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