Macroeconomics of Money Demand
Understand why firms and households hold cash over interest-bearing assets. Master foundational micro-foundations, Keynesian liquidity preference, and structural shifts in developing economies.
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A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Micro-Foundations of Holding Liquidity and Macro Regimes and Institutional Divergence. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Macroeconomics of Money Demand
- Currency pays zero nominal interest, making its relative penalty grow with yields
- Nominal yields on bonds or deposits measure the explicit price paid to hold currency
- Higher nominal rates increase forgone interest, incentivizing smaller cash holdings
- Baumol-Tobin balances fixed trip/transfer costs against forgone interest
- Higher trip fees motivate fewer, larger withdrawals, boosting average cash held
- Higher bond rates reward frequent, small transfers to keep funds earning yield
- The square-root rule proves money demand increases with the square root of income.
- Quadrupling transactions volume only requires doubling average money balances.
- Larger spenders enjoy scale economies by turning over cash balances more efficiently.
- Precautionary demand provides liquidity when payment arrival times become volatile.
- Higher nominal rates increase forgone interest, incentivizing smaller cash holdings.
- High friction or delays in liquidating secondary assets elevate emergency cash needs.
- Readily accessible credit lines reduce the need to hold idle precautionary balances.
- Unusually low interest rates generate widespread expectations that rates must soon rise.
- Rising bond yields cause bond prices to drop, creating capital losses on debt assets.
- Holding zero-return cash protects total portfolio wealth from severe capital losses.
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What measures the explicit opportunity cost, or price paid, to hold cash instead of an alternative asset?
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Where Macroeconomics of Money Demand takes you
- 1
The Micro-Foundations of Holding Liquidity
- Core Motives: Transactions, Precaution, and Speculation
- Liquidity Preference and Portfolio Allocation
- 2
Macro Regimes and Institutional Divergence
- Classical Quantity Theory Versus Keynesian Velocity
- Money Demand in Developing Financial Systems
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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