Money supply endogeneity : an empirical investigation of South African data (2000Q1-2011Q4)

Schady, Stuart William

Title: Money supply endogeneity : an empirical investigation of South African data (2000Q1-2011Q4)
Creator: Schady, Stuart William
Subject: Monetary policy -- South Africa
Subject: Inflation targeting -- South Africa
Subject: Gross domestic product -- South Africa
Subject: Bank loans -- South Africa
Subject: Money supply -- South Africa
Subject: Endogenous growth (Economics)
Subject: Domestic credit extension
Date: 2013
Date: 2013-04-29
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MCom
Identifier: vital:928
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001454
Identifier: Monetary policy -- South Africa
Identifier: Inflation targeting -- South Africa
Identifier: Gross domestic product -- South Africa
Identifier: Bank loans -- South Africa
Identifier: Money supply -- South Africa
Identifier: Endogenous growth (Economics)
Description: This study is about whether the money supply in South Africa under a monetary policy regime of inflation‐targeting is exogenously or endogenously determined. The proposition of an exogenous money supply has been offered by monetarists, where the Central Bank determines the quantity of money supplied to the economy and this has a causal influence on income and credit extension. The endogenous money theory is a post‐Keynesian proposition whereby the money creation is determined by banks adjusting their responses to demands for credit‐money from economic agents. The data analysis is from 2000Q1 to 2010Q4 and entails the use of the variables monetary base (MB), domestic credit extension (DCE), M3, and gross national product (GDP). All variables are logged. The empirical tests conducted start with the Augmented Dickey‐Fuller unit root test to determine the variables order of integration. Johansen cointegration tests are done followed by Vector Error‐Correction Models (VECMs) and Granger causality tests to determine whether there is unidirectional or bidirectional causality between variables over the long and short‐run. Based on the results of the testing it was discovered that over the inflation‐targeting regime money supply in South Africa was endogenously determined. Furthermore, the data best supports the Accommodationist analysis of endogenous money as opposed to that of Structuralism and Liquidity Preference
Description: Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
Format: 87 p, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Commerce, Economics and Economic History
Language: English
Rights: Schady, Stuart William

Hits: 3042
Visitors: 3160
Downloads: 222

Collections

RU Department of Economics and Economic History

		Thumbnail	File	Description	Size	Format
View Details Download			SOURCEPDF	PDF	603 KB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	View Details Download