Testing long-run neutrality of money: evidence from the UK

Abstract

The paper presents empirical evidence on the long-run neutrality of monetary policy in the UK based on the methodology developed by Fisher and Seater. Money is found to be long-run neutral with respect to real GDP and real equity prices. However, in the short to medium term permanent positive shocks to money supply seem to be positively correlated with real GDP and negatively correlated with real equity prices.