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Money Neutrality, Monetary Aggregates and Machine Learning

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  • Gogas, Periklis

    (Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics)

  • Papadimitriou, Theophilos

    (Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics)

  • Sofianos, Emmanouil

    (Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics)

Abstract

The issue of whether or not money affects real economic activity (money neutrality) has attracted significant empirical attention over the last five decades. If money is neutral even in the short-run, then monetary policy is ineffective and its role limited. If money matters, it will be able to forecast real economic activity. In this study, we test the traditional simple sum monetary aggregates that are commonly used by central banks all over the world and also the theoretically correct Divisia monetary aggregates proposed by the Barnett Critique (Chrystal and MacDonald, 1994; Belongia and Ireland, 2014), both in three levels of aggregation: M1, M2, and M3. We use them to directionally forecast the Eurocoin index: A monthly index that measures the growth rate of the euro area GDP. The data span from January 2001 to June 2018. The forecasting methodology we employ is support vector machines (SVM) from the area of machine learning. The empirical results show that: (a) The Divisia monetary aggregates outperform the simple sum ones and (b) both monetary aggregates can directionally forecast the Eurocoin index reaching the highest accuracy of 82.05% providing evidence against money neutrality even in the short term.

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  • Gogas, Periklis & Papadimitriou, Theophilos & Sofianos, Emmanouil, 2019. "Money Neutrality, Monetary Aggregates and Machine Learning," DUTH Research Papers in Economics 4-2016, Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:duthrp:2016_004
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    1. Dimitrios Mouchtaris & Emmanouil Sofianos & Periklis Gogas & Theophilos Papadimitriou, 2021. "Forecasting Natural Gas Spot Prices with Machine Learning," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-13, September.
    2. Emmanouil Sofianos & Emmanouil Zaganidis & Theophilos Papadimitriou & Periklis Gogas, 2024. "Forecasting East and West Coast Gasoline Prices with Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(6), pages 1-14, March.
    3. Periklis Gogas & Theophilos Papadimitriou & Emmanouil Sofianos, 2022. "Forecasting unemployment in the euro area with machine learning," Journal of Forecasting, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(3), pages 551-566, April.

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    Keywords

    Eurocoin; simple sum; Divisia; SVM; machine learning; forecasting; money neutrality;
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    JEL classification:

    • E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
    • E27 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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