A Subsistence Linked Economy : The Case of the Solomon Islands

How are money demand, income, and the price level affected when a significant portion of the economically active population reverts to and withdraws from subsistence economic activity? This paper tries to find a quantitative answer to the question by highlighting the specific link between the monetized and the subsistence economy that exists in the Solomon Islands: the producer price of copra, the main cash crop. The paper includes this variable explicitly in the money demand function of an aggregated macroeconomic simultaneous equation model and finds a significant impact throughout the economy.
Publication date: December 1989
ISBN: 9781451947762
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Economics- Macroeconomics , Economics / General , International - Economics , money demand , equation , inflation , simultaneous equation , forecasting

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