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Money Supply Is Linked to the Monetary Base by the Money

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Money supply is linked to the monetary base by the money multiplier. Macroeconomic textbooks tell you that the central bank cannot control the money supply, but it can control the monetary base. As a result, you decide to specify a distributed lag equation of the growth in the money supply on the growth in the monetary base. One of your peers tells you that this is not a good idea for modeling the relationship between the two variables. What does she mean?


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