Quantity theory of money

Thequantity theory of money(often abbreviatedQTM) is a hypothesis withinmonetary economicswhich states that the generalprice levelof goods and services is directly proportional to the amount of money in circulation (i.e., themoney supply), and that the causality runs from money to prices. This implies that the theory potentially explains inflation. It originated in the 16th century and has been proclaimed the oldest survivingtheory in economics.

According to some, the theory was originally formulated by Renaissance mathematicianNicolaus Copernicusin 1517, whereas others mentionMartín de AzpilcuetaandJean Bodinas independent originators of the theory. It has later been discussed and developed by several prominent thinkers and economists includingJohn Locke,David Hume,Irving FisherandAlfred Marshall.Milton Friedmanmade a restatement of the theory in 1956 and made it into a cornerstone ofmonetarist thinking.

The theory is often stated in terms of the equation $M$ $V$ = $P$ $Y$ ,where $M$ is the money supply, $V$ is thevelocity of money,and $P$ $Y$ is the nominal value ofoutputornominal GDP( $P$ itself being aprice indexand $Y$ the amount of real output). This equation is known as the quantity equation or theequation of exchangeand is itself uncontroversial, as it can be seen as anaccounting identity,residually defining velocity as theratioof nominal output to the supply of money. Assuming additionally that $Y$ isexogenous,being independently determined by other factors, that $V$ is constant, and that $M$ is exogenous and under the control of thecentral bank,the equation is turned into a theory which says that inflation (the change in $P$ over time) can be controlled by setting the growth rate of $M$ .However, all three assumptions are arguable and have been challenged over time. Output is generally believed to be affected bymonetary policyat least temporarily, velocity has historically changed in unanticipated ways because of shifts in themoney demandfunction, and some economists believe the money supply to beendogenously determinedand hence not controlled by the monetary authorities.

The QTM played an important role in the monetary policy of the 1970s and 1980s when several leading central banks (including theFederal Reserve,theBank of EnglandandBundesbank) based their policies on a money supply target in accordance with the theory. However, the results were not satisfactory, and strategies focusing specifically on monetary aggregates were generally abandoned during the 1980s and 1990s. Today, most major central banks in practice followinflation targetingby suitably changing interest rates, and monetary aggregates play little role in monetary policy considerations in most countries.

Origins and development

Before 1900: Early contributions

Economic historianMark Blaughas called the quantity theory of money "the oldest surviving theory in economics", its origins originating in the 16th century.^[1]Nicolaus Copernicusnoted in 1517 that money usually depreciates in value when it is too abundant,^[2]which is by some historians taken as the first mention of the theory.^[3]^[4]Robert Dimand in the chapter on the history of monetary economics inThe New Palgrave Dictionary of EconomicsidentifiedMartín de Azpilcueta(1536)^[5]andJean Bodin(1568)^[6]as the originators of a proper theory usable for explaining the observed quadrupling of prices during the phenomenon known as thePrice revolutionfollowing the influx of silver from theNew Worldto Europe.^[1]

John Lockestudied thevelocity of circulation,^[1]and David Hume in 1752 used the quantity theory to develop hisprice–specie flow mechanismexplaining balance of payments adjustments.^[7]^[1]AlsoHenry Thornton,^[8]John Stuart Mill^[9]^[3]andSimon Newcomb^[10]^[1]among others contributed to the development of the quantity theory.

During the 19th century, a main rival of the quantity theory was thereal bills doctrine,which says that the issue of money does not raise prices, as long as the new money is issued in exchange for assets of sufficient value.^[11]According to proponents of the real bills doctrine, money supply responded passively in response to money demand. Consequently, there could be no causal influence from money to prices; conversely, the connection ran in the opposite direction: Money demand was determined by income and prices, which were affected by inflation, caused by various real (i.e., non-monetary) reasons.^[12]

1900–1950: Fisher, Wicksell, Marshall and Keynes

The eminent economistIrving Fisher,building upon work by Newcomb, developed the theory further in what has been called "The Golden Age of the quantity theory",^[1]formalizing theequation of exchangeand attempting to measure thevelocity of moneyindependently empirically.^[13]^[1]Fisher insisted on the long-runneutrality of money,but admitted that money was not neutral during transition periods of up to 10 years.^[1]Another renowned monetary economist,Knut Wicksell,criticized the quantity theory of money, citing the notion of a "pure credit economy".^[14]Wicksell instead emphasized real shocks as a cause of observed price movements and developed his theory of thenatural rate of interestto explain why the monetary authority should stabilize by setting the interest rate rather than the quantity of money – a position that has received renewed attention during the 21st century, exemplified in the influentialTaylor ruleof monetary policy.^[1]

The extremely influential neoclassical economistAlfred Marshall,Professor at Cambridge, expounded the quantity theory in a version which stated that desired cash balances (i.e.,money demand) was proportional to nominal income. The proposition is normally written M = kPY, where k is the proportionality factor. This is known as theCambridge equation,a variant of the quantity theory. As the coefficient k is the reciprocal of V, the income velocity of circulation of money in the equation of exchange, the two versions of the quantity theory are formally equivalent, though the Cambridge variant focuses on money demand as an important element of the theory.^[1]

Marshall's discipleJohn Maynard Keynesextended his monetary analysis in several ways and eventually integrated it into hisGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,published in 1936, which formed the cornerstone of theKeynesian Revolution.Keynes accepted the quantity theory in principle as accurate over the long run, but not over the short run, coining in his 1923 bookA Tract on Monetary Reformthe famous sentence, "In the long run, we are all dead".^[15]He emphasized that money demand (or, in his terminology,liquidity preference) depended on the interest rate as well as nominal income,^[15]^[16]and contended that contrary to contemporaneous thinking, velocity and output were not stable, but highly variable and as such, the quantity of money was of little importance in driving prices.^[17]Rather, changes in the money supply could have effects on real variables like output.^[18]

At the same time as Keynes personally and his followers which contributed to the resulting theoretical foundation ofKeynesian economicsin principle recognized a role for monetary policy in stabilizing economic fluctuations over thebusiness cycle,in practice they believed thatfiscal policywas more efficient for this purpose, maintaining that changes in interest rates had little effect on demand and output. The Keynesian paradigm came to dominate macroeconomic thinking until the 1970s, assigning little attention to monetary policy.^[19]

Monetarism

However, from the 1950s and increasingly during the 1960s, the Keynesian view was challenged by an initially small, but increasingly influential minority, themonetarists,the intellectual leader of which wasMilton Friedman.^[19]In response to the Keynesian view of the world, he made a restatement of the quantity theory in 1956^[20]and used it as a cornerstone for monetarist thinking.^[17]

Friedman agreed that money could affect output in the short run. Indeed, he believed that monetary policy was much more powerful in this respect than fiscal policy. Together withAnna Schwartz,he wrote in 1963 the influential bookA Monetary History of the United States,concluding that movements in money explained most of the fluctuations in output, and reinterpreted theGreat Depressionas the result of a major mistake in American monetary policy, failing to avoid a large contraction in the money supply during the 1930s.^[19]^[21]

At the same time, Friedman was sceptical as to the use of active monetary policy to stabilise output, believing that knowledge of the economy was too little to ensure that such policies would improve rather than worsen the situation. Instead, he advocated a simple monetary policy rule of maintaining a steady growth rate in money supply, which would not result in perfect short-run stabilisation, but in accordance with the quantity theory would ensure a steady long-run inflation rate. This came to be the main policy recommendation of the monetarists. ^[22]

Consequently, the monetarist application of the quantity-theory approach aimed at removingmonetary policyas a source of macroeconomic instability by targeting a constant, low growth rate of the money supply.^[23]Thezenithof monetarist influence came during the late 1970s and the 1980s, after inflation had risen in many countries during the 1970s caused by the1970s energy crisis,and thefixed exchange rate systemamong major Western economies known as theBretton Woods systemhad been dissolved. In that situation several central banks turned to a money supply target in an attempt to reduce inflation. For instance the U.S.Federal Reserve Systemled by chairmanPaul Volckerannounced a money growth target, starting from October 1979.^[24]

The results were not satisfactory, however, because the relationship between monetary aggregates and other macroeconomic variables proved to be rather unstable. Similar results prevailed in other countries.^[24]^[25]Firstly, the relation between money growth and inflation turned out to be not very tight, even over 10-year periods, and secondly, the relation between the money supply and the interest rate in the short run turned out to be unreliable, too, making money growth an unreliable instrument to affect demand and output. The reason for both problems was frequent shifts in the demand for money during the period, partly because of changes infinancial intermediation.^[19]This made velocity unpredictable and weakened the link between money and prices implied by the quantity theory. Milton Friedman later acknowledged that direct money supply targeting was less successful than he had hoped.^[26]

New classical economists

For a third group of post-war macroeconomists beside Keynesians and monetarists, thenew classical economists,the quantity theory of money was also a doctrine of fundamental importance, butRobert E. Lucasand other leading new classical economists made serious efforts to specify and refine its theoretical meaning. These theoretical considerations involved serious changes as to the scope of countercyclical economic policy.^[27]The new classical model held that even in the short run, monetary policy could not be used to stabilize output as only unexpected changes in money could affect real variables. However, this view did not gain widespread support, failing to be confirmed by empirical tests.^[28]Empirically, evidence generally supports that there is a short-run linkage between money and economic activity.^[29]

After 1990: Decline of money supply targeting

Following the difficulties of the 1980s in conducting a satisfactory monetary policy by money supply targeting, most central banks, including the U.S.Federal Reserve,turned away from focusing on monetary aggregates, instead implementing their policies by setting short-term interest rates.^[30]Among monetary researchers, the demise of the money supply as a policy variable was recognized and rationalized byMichael Woodford.^[31]

From 1990, the new principle ofinflation targetsas the basis for a country's monetary policy gained popularity, starting with New Zealand and eventually spreading to most developed countries. Inflation targeting countries set interest rates to influence economic activity via themonetary transmission mechanism,eventually affecting inflation to fulfill their inflation argets. The communication of inflation targets helps to anchor the public inflation expectations, it makes central banks more accountable for their actions, and it reduces economic uncertainty among the participants in the economy.^[32]

Money supply (M2) for some time remained aleading economic indicatorin the United States, but lost its status as such in theConference Board Leading Economic Indexin 2012, after it was ascertained that it had performed poorly as a leading indicator since 1989.^[33]Also in the policy making of theEuropean Central Bankfrom 1999, monetary aggregates, which were initially officially assigned a prominent role as one of two pillars upon which the ECB monetary policy rested, were assigned a graduately more peripheral role among the indicators informing the bank's interest rate decisions.^[34]

The equation of exchange

In its modern form, the quantity theory builds upon the following definitional relationship, formulated algebraically byIrving Fisherin 1911:

M\cdot V_{T}=\sum _{i}(p_{i}\cdot q_{i})=\mathbf {p} ^{\mathrm {T} }\mathbf {q},

where

M\,

is the total amount ofmoneyin circulation on average in an economy during the period, say a year.

V_{T}\,

is the transactionsvelocity of money,that is the average frequency across all transactions with which a unit of money is spent. This reflects availability of financial institutions, economic variables, and choices made as to how fast people turn over their money.

p_{i}\,

and

q_{i}\,

are the price and quantity of the i-th transaction.

\mathbf {p}

is a column vector of the

p_{i}\,

,and the superscript^Tis thetransposeoperator.

\mathbf {q}

is a column vector of the

q_{i}\,

.

Mainstream economics accepts a simplification, theequation of exchange,also called the quantityequation:^[35]

M\cdot V_{T}=P_{T}\cdot T,

where

P_{T}

is theprice levelassociated with transactions for the economy during the period,

T

is an index of thereal valueof aggregate transactions.

The previous equation presents the difficulty that the associated data are not available for all transactions. With the development ofnational income and product accounts,emphasis shifted to national-income or final-product transactions, rather than gross transactions. Economists may alternatively use a specification where

V

is thevelocity of moneyin final expenditures or, equivalently, theincome velocity of money,

Q

is an index of the real value of final expenditures or, equivalently, income.^[35]

As an example, $M$ might represent currency plus deposits in checking and savings accounts held by the public, $Q$ real output (which equals real expenditure in macroeconomic equilibrium) with $P$ the corresponding price level, and $P\cdot Q$ thenominal(money) value of output. In one empirical formulation, velocity was taken to be "the ratio of net national product in current prices to the money stock".^[36]

From the quantity equation to the quantity theory

The quantity equation itself as stated above is uncontroversial, as it amounts to an identity or, equivalently, simply a definition of velocity: From the equation, velocity can be defined residually as the ratio of nominal output to the stock of money: $V=(P\cdot Q)/M$ .Developing a theory out of the equation requires assumptions be made about the causal relationships among the four variables in this one equation. The crucial question is to which extent each of these variables is dependent upon the others. Without further restrictions, the equation does not require that a change in the money supply would change the value of any or all of $P$ , $Q$ ,or $P\cdot Q$ .For example, a 10% increase in $M$ could be accompanied by a change of 1/(1 + 10%) in $V$ ,leaving $P\cdot Q$ unchanged.

The quantitytheoryof money consequently goes further, resting in its basic form on three additional assumptions:^[35]

The amount of real output $Q$ isexogenous,being determined by other forces such as available production factors and production technology
Velocity $V$ is constant over time
The supply of money $M$ is also exogenous and can be controlled by the monetary authority (the central bank).

Under these three assumptions, there is a causal effect ofMonP,and the central bank, by controlling money supply, will be able to directly control the price level of the economy. Specifically, a constant growth rate in the money stock will lead to a constant inflation rate, as long as real output grows at a constant rate.^[35]

The realism of each of the three assumptions has been debated over time, though, making the prominent monetarist economistDavid Laidlerdeclare in 1991 that the quantity theory "is always and everywhere controversial".^[37]Firstly, most economists think that output can be affected by e.g. changes in demand including those that originate from monetary (or fiscal) policy in the short run, i.e. at any point in the business cycle, though in the medium and long run the assumption is more warranted.^[38]^[39]Indeed, the possibility of influencing and mitigating short-run output fluctuations is the basis for thestabilization policiesof most central banks in developed countries today.^[19]^[35]Secondly, there is general agreement that velocity does change over time,^[35]and sometimes in unpredictable ways, because of changes in the money demand function; this may e.g. be the consequence of changes in the infrastructure ofpayment systems.This was considered a major problem during the 1970s and 1980s when several major central banks including the Federal Reserve tried conducting monetary policy following a money supply target.^[19]^[24]Thirdly, the exogeneity and control by the monetary authority of the money supply is questioned by some economists.James Tobinnoted in 1970 that money might be correlated with output because money passively reacts to output. Central banks and consequently monetary bases can be said to react to events in the economy, and most of typical money supply measures are created by privatecommercial bankswho may also be considered to be affected by the general economic atmosphere when carrying out their banking activities.^[40]

Cambridge approach

EconomistsAlfred Marshall,A.C. Pigou,andJohn Maynard Keynes(before he developed his own, eponymous school of thought) associated withCambridge University,took a slightly different approach to the quantity equation, focusing on money demand instead of money supply. They argued that a certain portion of the money supply will not be used for transactions; instead, it will be held for the convenience and security of having cash on hand. This portion of cash is commonly represented ask,a portion of nominal income ( $P\cdot Y$ ). The Cambridge economists also thought wealth would play a role, but wealth is often omitted for simplicity. The Cambridge equation is thus:

M^{\textit {d}}={\textit {k}}\cdot P\cdot Y.

Assuming that the economy is at equilibrium ( $M^{\textit {d}}=M$ ), $Y$ isexogenous,andkis fixed in the short run, the Cambridge equation is equivalent to the equation of exchange with velocity equal to the inverse ofk:

M\cdot {\frac {1}{k}}=P\cdot Y.

The Cambridge version of the quantity equation was used in both Keynes's attack on the quantity theory and the Monetarist revival of the theory.^[41]

Evidence

As restated by Milton Friedman, the quantity theory emphasizes the following relationship of the nominal value of expenditures $PQ$ and the price level $P$ to the quantity of money $M$ :

(1)PQ={f}({\overset {+}{M}})

(2)P={g}({\overset {+}{M}})

The plus signs indicate that a change in the money supply is hypothesized to change nominal expenditures and the price level in the same direction (for other variablesheld constant).

Milton Friedman made an influential case for the theory in his 1956 paperStudies in the quantity theory of money.^[42]Later, Friedman wrote in 1987 that theempiricalregularity of a "connection between substantial changes in the quantity of money and in the level of prices"was perhaps the most-evidenced economic phenomenon on record, adding that" The statistical connection itself, however, tells nothing about direction of influence ".^[43]According to Friedman, the short-run relation of a change in the money supply in the past has been relatively more associated with a change in real output $Q$ than the price level $P$ in (1), but with much variation in the precision, timing, and size of the relation. For thelong-run, there has been stronger support for (1) and (2) and no systematic association of $Q$ and $M$ .^[44]

In a more recent examination of data from 109 countries from 1991 onwards, it was found that inflation and money growth did not exhibit a proportional development; however, excess money growth did act as a predictor of inflation, but the effect during the time period examined was relatively low.^[45]

In 2016, ProfessorHarald Uhligand two coauthors looked upon a cross-section of countries in the years 1970-2005. They found that for moderate-inflation countries (defined as countries with average inflation rates below 12%), the direct relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money was very tenuous at best, though the fit could be improved by correcting for variation in output growth and the opportunity cost of money. They also found that for countries followinginflation targeting,the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation was considerably lower than for other countries.^[46]

Though more disputed in the 1970s,^[47]surveys of members of theAmerican Economics Associationsince the 1990s have shown that most professional American economists generally agree with the statement: "Inflation is caused primarily by too much growth in the money supply."^{[list 1]}

Criticism by non-mainstream economists

In the 1860's,Karl Marxmodified the quantity theory by arguing that thelabor theory of valuerequires that prices, under equilibrium conditions, are determined by socially necessary labor time needed to produce the commodity and that quantity of money was a function of the quantity of commodities, the prices of commodities, and the velocity.^[52]

In 1912,Ludwig von Misesagreed that there was a core of truth in the quantity theory, but criticized its focus on the supply of money without adequately explaining the demand for money. He said the theory "fails to explain the mechanism of variations in the value of money".^[53]

In his 1976 bookThe Denationalisation of Money,Friedrich Hayekdescribed the quantity theory of money "as no more than a useful rough approximation to a really adequate explanation". According to him, the theory "becomes wholly useless where several concurrent distinct kinds of money are simultaneously in use in the same territory."

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