Journal of Economic Research (Tahghighat- E- Eghtesadi)

Journal of Economic Research (Tahghighat- E- Eghtesadi)

Money Demand in Dollarized Economies: The Case of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
1 MA. Student, Department of Economics, Payame Noor University, Ramsar
2 Assistance Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
Abstract
Money demand in dollarized economies appears to be highly unstable and the model making it very difficult to forecast. This paper utilizes cointegrating analysis and application "Autoregressive Distributed Lag Method"(ARDL), the money demand function measured of the Iran dollarized economy. The study findings represent a long-term stable equilibrium relationship between real money demand and variables, GDP, the exchange rate on the informal market, inflation and ratchet. The results of this study indicate the occurrence dollarization and irreversibility of it’s in the Iranian economy, because coefficients for the exchange rate and ratchet variable are negative and significant in the demand for money.
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Volume 49, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
Summer 2014
Pages 211-228

  • Receive Date 17 February 2013
  • Revise Date 12 October 2014
  • Accept Date 03 June 2014