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Several studies have developed empirical models of U.K. mondy demand using the century of annual and phase-average data in Friedman and Schwartz (1982). The current paper evaluates key models from those studies, employing tests of constancy and encompassing. The evidence strongly favors an annual model from Ericsson, Hendry, and Prestwich (1998a), whereas models based on the phase-average data fare poorly.
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The first author is a staff economist in the Division of International Finace, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551 USA. The second author is Leverhulme Personal Research Professor of Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford OX1 1NF. The third author was a research assistan in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board when this paper was initially drafted. The views in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or of any other person associated with the Federal Reserve System. The first author gratefully acknowledges the generous hospitality of Norges Bank, where he revised some of the material herein. The second author gratefully acknowledges financial support from the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council under grant R000234954. We wish to thank Clifford Attfield, David Demery, and Nigel Duck for compiling the data in Attfield, Demery, and Duck (1995); and Neva Kerbeshian, Helmut Lütkepohl, Jaime Marquez, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. All numerical results were obtained using PcGive Professional Version 9.0: see Doornik and Hendry (1996). The data may be obtained from the Internet at http://wotan.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/oeknometrie/engl/data.html
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Ericsson, N.R., Hendry, D.F. & Prestwich, K.M. Friedman and Schwartz (1982) revisited: Assessing annual and phase-average models of money demand in the United Kingdom. Empirical Economics 23, 401–415 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01294415
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