Price Pressure Gaps: An Application of P* Using Korean Data

Author/Editor:

Richard D Haas ; Robert J. Corker

Publication Date:

March 1, 1991

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Summary:

This paper presents estimates of a price-pressure indicator for Korea. It does this by constructing measures of how much M2 velocity and output differ from their long-term values. This, in turn, involves estimating a demand for money function in an error correction framework in which interest rates in the unorganized money market help to account for the effects of ongoing financial liberalization. An equation explaining the Korean inflation rate is identified in which both the monetary variable--the velocity gap--and the real variable--the output gap--play important roles.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1991/026

Subject:

Demand for money Monetary aggregates Monetary base Money National accounts Personal income Velocity of money

English

Publication Date:

March 1, 1991

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451981728/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0261991

Pages:

26

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