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A note on the optimal level of monetary aggregation in the United Kingdom

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Summary, in English

Weak separability is a key admissibility property in the Divisia approach to monetary aggregation. We test groups of U.K. household sector monetary assets for weak separability using new data underlying the Bank of England's benchmark revision of its household sector Divisia index. Nonparametric tests are used to identify four monetary asset groupings, which are weakly separable over all or almost all of the post-ERM period (1992:4-2005:1). We construct Divisia monetary aggregates for these four groupings and investigate their information content in two applications. The main findings are that Divisia money has direct effects on aggregate demand and that the growth rates of the nominal Divisia monetary aggregates Granger cause nominal output growth, but not inflation.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

117-131

Publication/Series

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volume

12

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article (letter)

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • monetary aggregation
  • nonparametric tests
  • weak separability

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1365-1005