Financial Liberalization, Money Demand, and Inflation in Uganda

Author/Editor:

Jean-Claude Nachega

Publication Date:

August 1, 2001

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper uses cointegration analysis to investigate the empirical relationship among money, prices, income, and a vector of interest rates in Uganda from 1982 to 1998. Despite the substantial financial market liberalization that has taken place in the early 1990s, quarterly time-series data confirm that a stable relationship prevailed among real broad money, income, and domestic and foreign interest rates. The empirical results indicate income homogeneity, a strong own-rate-of-return effect, a high degree of international capital mobility and asset substitutability, and demonstrate that both domestic and foreign factors are important determinants of inflation in Uganda.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2001/118

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

August 1, 2001

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451854084/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1182001

Pages:

45

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