Evidence that Risk Adjustment is Unnecessary in Estimates of the User Cost of Money

Publicado en

• Revista Ecos de Economía

Resumen

• Investors value the special attributes of monetary assets (e.g., exchangeability, liquidity, and safety) and pay a premium for holding them in the form of a lower return rate. The user cost of holding monetary assets can be measured approximately by the difference between the returns on illiquid risky assets and those of safer liquid assets. A more appropriate measure should adjust this difference by the differential risk of the assets in question. We investigate the impact that time non-separable preferences has on the estimation of the risk-adjusted user cost of money. Using U.K. data from 1965Q1 to 2011Q1, we estimate a habit-based asset pricing model with money in the utility function and find that the risk adjustment for risky monetary assets is negligible. Thus, researchers can dispense with risk adjusting the user cost of money in constructing monetary aggregate indexes.

autores

• Restrepo-Tobón, Diego

fecha de publicación

• 2015

Área temática

• E41 - Demanda de dinero
• E51 - Oferta monetaria; Crédito; Multiplicadores monetarios
• G12 - Valoración de activos financieros; Volumen de comercio; Tasas de interés de bonos

Enfoque geográfico

• Europe  Continent
• United Kingdom  Country

Líneas de investigación

• Costo de uso
• Dinero
• Formación de hábitos
• Valoración de activos

Página inicial

• 49

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Volumen

• 19

Issue

• 41