Joseph Atta-Mensah - Latest

• Money Demand and Economic Uncertainty

  Staff Working Paper 2004-25 Joseph Atta-Mensah

  The author examines the impact of economic uncertainty on the demand for money.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Monetary aggregates JEL Code(s): E, E4, E41, E5, E50

• Commodity-Linked Bonds: A Potential Means for Less-Developed Countries to Raise Foreign Capital

  Staff Working Paper 2004-20 Joseph Atta-Mensah

  The author suggests that commodity-linked bonds could provide a potential means for less-developed countries (LDCs) to raise money on the international capital markets, rather than through standard forms of financing.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Development economics, Financial markets, International topics JEL Code(s): F, F3, F30, F34, F4, F49, G, G1, G11, G13, O, O1, O16

• The Demand for Money in a Stochastic Environment

  Staff Working Paper 2004-7 Joseph Atta-Mensah

  The author re-examines the demand-for-money theory in an intertemporal optimization model. The demand for real money balances is derived to be a function of real income and the rates of return of all financial assets traded in the economy.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Monetary aggregates JEL Code(s): E, E4, E41, E5, E50, G, G1, G11