Analyzing the Money Demand Function in Iran

Demand for money is an important part of macroeconomic models and the monetary policy; furthermore, demand for money and its stability are important in an economy especially in the design of monetary policy. We estimate the Iran’s demand for money for period (1971-2008) using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method. We also use the error correction model for short-run dynamic analysis and stability test in model. The explanatory variables include gross domestic product, inflation rate, and foreign exchange rate, short-run and long-run interest. The results show that there is a long-run equilibrium relationship between the variables. According to our finding, the gross domestic product have positive impact on the demand for money and exchange rate and inflation rate have significant negative effects on the demand for money in Iran.