Money in the Utility Function (Classic Reprint): An Empirical Implementation: An Empirical Implementation (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Poterba, James M.

 
9781334475498: Money in the Utility Function (Classic Reprint): An Empirical Implementation: An Empirical Implementation (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Explore how households derive value from money and liquid assets, not just from consumption. This study presents a unified way to model asset demands that treats liquidity as a direct source of utility, alongside consumption.

The authors build a representative consumer model that includes four major asset classes—money, time deposits, short-term government debt, and corporate equity—and examine how these holdings interact with consumption. They estimate a utility-based framework using instrumental variables and test whether liquidity services are a real part of utility, not just a byproduct of other theories. The work also discusses estimation challenges, model identifiability, and how the results stack up against previous studies.


  • How the theory connects consumption, asset holdings, and liquidity services in a single framework

  • Estimation methods, overidentifying restrictions, and what the data say about utility from liquidity

  • Key findings on the share of spending devoted to consumption and the elasticity of substitution among assets

  • Implications for interpreting asset demand and for comparing with earlier models



Ideal for readers interested in monetary economics, asset demand, and empirical methods that link consumption with portfolio choices.

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Excerpt from Money in the Utility Function: An Empirical Implementation

This paper was prepared for the 1985 Austin Symposium in Economics. We thank Sunny Kim for research assistance and Olivier Blanchard, Stan Fischer, Lars Hansen, and the participants at an nber Financial Markets Conference for comments on an earlier draft. We are especially grateful to Lawrence Summers for numerous helpful (and not uncritical) discussions. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, and is part of the nber Programs in Economic Fluctuations and Financial Markets. Any views are those of the authors and do not reflect upon the nber or nsf.

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