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A Monetarist Model Reconsidered: The Emergence of Chaotic Fluctuations

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Friedman (1968) proposes a constant money growth rate rule to establish the stability of the market economy. We examine whether his suggestion is reasonable or not. We seek to develop the Vanderkamp (1975) model, which captures the essential points of monetarism: the quantity theory of money and the natural rate of unemployment. Our main finding is that the economy experiences chaotic fluctuations around the steady state when the adjustment speed of inflationary expectations is sufficiently slow.

DOI 10.11648/j.ijebo.s.2015030201.21
Published in International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 3, Issue 2-1, April 2015)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments of Economic Theory and Its Applications

Page(s) 73-76
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Keywords

Monetarist, Constant Money Growth Rate Rule, Chaotic Fluctuations

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    Hiroyuki Yoshida. A Monetarist Model Reconsidered: The Emergence of Chaotic Fluctuations. Int J Econ Behav Organ. 2015;3(2-1):73-76. doi: 10.11648/j.ijebo.s.2015030201.21

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