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The Impact of the Broad Money Supply (M2) on Economic Growth per
Capita in Palestine
Alaa Razia
Islamic Banking Department, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
E-mail: alaa.razia@najah.edu
Mostafa Omarya
Master's Student, Economic Policy Administration, Social Sciences College, An-Najah National
University, Nablus, Palestine
E-mail: Mostafaomarya5@gmail.com
Abstract:
This study examines the effect of the broad money supply (M2) on the per capita economic growth in
Palestine using time series data from 2000 to 2020. The study used autoregressive distributed lag model
(ARDL), the cointegration approach and the error correction model to investigate the effect of money supply
on gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The model is determined by four macroeconomic variables,
namely, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, broad money supply (M2), gross fixed capital formation
(GFCF), and inflation rate (INF). The results show that the money supply, the total capital formation, and
the inflation rate have a positive impact on the economic growth in the short run. However, none of these
variables affect the economic growth in the long term.
Keywords: Economic Growth, Money Supply, Inflation Rate, Gross Fixed Capital Formation,
Autoregressive Distributed Lag Regression (ARDL).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
DOI: 10.51325/ijbeg.v5i2.86
1. Introduction
The effect of money supply on per capita economic growth has received little
coverage in the literature in the context of Palestine with most studies focusing on the
same topic in other countries. However, it is equally important to determine the impact of
the money supply on the economic growth in Palestine for policymakers to effectively
harness and increase economic growth. Great interest has emerged recently between
money supply and production, especially with the important role they play in achieving
economic growth, especially in emerging economies and industrialized countries (Haqq
and Hussein, 2017). Many economists found that the study of money affects the process
of economic growth, and Bagehot (1873) were the first to see the importance of the
banking system in collecting money and pumping it into financing major projects, and he
explained (Keynes, 1936). The balance of the monetary sector leads to the balance of the
market economy, as the absence of institutions and financial tools will prevent the
transformation of savings into investments, which will lead to a negative impact on
growth, as the change in the money supply affects real variables such as GDP and the
level of employment due to price stability and information Flowing incomplete in the
market. Money supply on economic growth is what he did (Friedman and Schwartz,
1963), where they emphasized the strong influence of money supply on money income
and its growth, and in contrast to the economic theory that money supply affects economic
growth, some researchers differed in this saying taken from the likes ( Adusei, 2013) and
(Gatawa et al., 2017) as they found in their studies that there is no effect of money supply
on economic growth without an adequate level of money. Supply, credit, and current
conditions. Appropriate finances. The remainder of the paper is structured as follows. The
second section provides an overview of the money supply and its impact on economic
growth in Palestine. Section 3 reviews the relevant literature on the money supply and its
effect on economic growth, in Section 4, we develop our hypotheses and research
framework. Finally, Section 5 contains the conclusion.
variables, namely, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, broad money supply (M2),
interest rate (INT), and inflation (INF). The rest of the paper is defined as follows: Section
II provides a brief review of the literature. The third section describes estimation
techniques. The fourth section presents the results and analysis, while the fifth section
concludes the study.
& Anjum, 2013) they found that Money supply is negatively correlated concerning
Pakistani GDP and (Ehigiamusoe, 2013) in his study of the relationship between financial
markets and economic growth in Nigeria, using VECM, found that the relationship
remains weak Money markets and the real economy.
A set of empirical formulas has been tested to track and analyze causality and try to
explain the relationship between money supply and economic growth referred to as per
capita GDP by mixing money supply in a total production function used by many studies,
the most important of which are (Dingela & Hlalefang, 2017) (Haque & Hussain, 2017)
(Chaitipa, Chokethaworna, & Chaiboonsrib, 2015) (Assaf, 2018)(Babatunde & Shuaibu,
2011)(Chude & Chude, 2016)(Maitra, 2011)(Aslam, 2011)(Simwaka,, 2012) (Narayan &
Smyth, 2008)(Gatawa & et al, 2017)(Ehigiamusoe, 2013)and (Odhiambo, 2008)and the
equation is given for the ARDL boundary specification of the model
ARDL Specifications for Form 1 (GDP, M3, GFCF, and INF)
𝑛 𝑛 𝑛 𝑛
Where is α0 a constant, α1- α4 and are regression coefficients, µ1-µ4 and are white noise
error terms
β : measures long-term coefficients
GDP: GDP per capita
M2: Money supply in its broadest sense
GFCF: Gross fixed capital formation
INF: Inflation rate
Based on prior literature, the following hypotheses have been formulated:
H01: There is a negative relationship between Money supply and GDP per capita.
H02: There is a negative relationship between Gross fixed capital formation and GDP
per capita.
H03: There is a negative association between the Inflation rate and GDP per capita.
4. Empirical Analysis
Test for unit root
We had to check if the variables had a unit root or not. Therefore, this was tested
using the Dickey-Fuller Extended Root Unit Tests and Phillips and Peronne tests for the
four variables. The results are shown in Table 3.
The above results show that we accept the null hypothesis, which states that the
data are stable and static, and reject the null hypothesis, which states that they are unstable.
In general, using the Dickey-Fuller test (ADF) and the Phillips-Perwin (PP) test, the
results confirm the appropriateness of performing a restrictive causality test and an ARDL
co-integration test.
After the results appear and the four variables are stable, the next step is to analyze the
long-run relationship between economic growth, money supply, interest rates, inflation,
and total fixed capital. However, before that, the ideal delay length must be determined
and several criteria are used to find the ideal delay length. As of reviewing the results of
the Akaike information criteria (AIC), Schwarz Criterion (SC), and Hannan–Quinn
information criterion (HQ), we can say that the appropriate delay period is the fourth as
shown in Table 2.
The ARDL bounds tests were used to examine the existence of a co-integration
relationship between the variables and the results shown in the table. Table 3 below shows
the evidence for the existence of an integrative relationship between money supply and
economic growth at a significance of 1%. The results of the F-statistics of the function
show that there is a co-integration relationship between money supply and economic
growth, as the F-statistics of 6.530960 are above the upper limit of the critical value of
5.61. Then we conclude that there is an integrative relationship in the first equation
between money supply and economic growth in Palestine.
Estimated transactions indicate that the money supply does not have a positive,
statistically significant effect on economic growth, which is in line with the argument that
the money supply does not affect economic growth. More specifically, the results are
consistent with those of Al-Saud et al. (2014) Al-Fawaz and Al-Sawi (2012) Adusei
(2013) Gatawa, Abdulgafar and Olarinde (2017) Ehsan and Anjem (2013) and
Ehigiamusoe )2013(
Table 5: Short-run results
Cointegrating Form
Variable Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistic Prob.
D(LM2) 0.492685 0.156002 3.158193 0.0091***
D(LGFCF) 0.298060 0.071594 4.163182 0.0016***
D(INF) 0.008215 0.003768 2.179990 0.0519
CointEq(-1) -0.164277 0.119478 -1.374957 0.1965
R-squared 0.992881
Durbin-Watson stat 2.347352
***, **, * Significant levels at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively
The previous results show that at the 1% level, there is a strong positive effect
between the money supply and economic growth in the short run, more specifically, the
short-run elasticity of the money supply is 0.49, which means that the money supply
increase. A 1% increase in the money supply leads to a 0.49% economic growth, the
remaining variables are stable, and total fixed capital is formed, as this is found to have a
positive effect on economic growth at the 5% significance level, due to a 1% increase in
the other variables. In the stable case, economic growth will increase by 26%, and in the
1% case, there is no positive effect between inflation and growth in the short run level,
indicating that the increase in inflation is increasing leading to a 0.29% increase in
economic growth because it not significant effect as is shown in Table (5). Based on the
results shown in Table 7, the estimated coefficient of CointEq -1 is -0.16. Since the error
correction term is negative and insignificant, this means that the results do not support a
large distance between the variables.
The stability of the long-run coefficients was tested using the cumulative sum of
recursive residuals (CUSUM) and CUSUM of recursive squares (CUSUMQ). The results
are shown in Figures 1 and 2 below. The results succeeded in rejecting the null hypothesis
at the 5% significance level because the test schemes fall within critical limits. Therefore,
it can be realized that our specific ARDL model is stable.
5. Conclusion
This paper examined the impact of money supply (M2) on economic growth
(GDP) in Palestine using time series data from 2000-2020. The study used the recently
developed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) modeling approach to estimate both
short and long-term resilience. The range of the selected macroeconomic variables (GDP
per capita, broad money supply (M2), gross fixed capital formation (GFGC), inflation rate
(INF). The results of the study revealed that there is a statistically significant positive
relationship A statistic between money supply and economic growth, as well as a strong
positive effect of total capital formation on economic growth in Palestine, and a positive
effect of the inflation rate on economic growth in the short term, and no effect of the
previous variables on economic growth in the long term. During many other studies. These
results are important for the Palestinian state as they are important for the financial
policymakers represented by the Monetary Authority, where the Palestinian government
must follow a policy of what is known as Taylor’s rule, which are reduced approximate
formulas that respond to the nominal interest rate as determined by central banks to
changes in inflation, production, or any economic condition We aim here, through this
rule, to increase the money supply at a fixed rate to keep pace with long-term growth after
the study proved successful in the short term due to the policies of the Monetary Authority
that keep pace with political events, and also the government must coordinate with the
Israeli side to ensure a safe environment that allows the flow of short and long-term
investments. Which will be converted into cash quickly and will reduce unemployment
and poverty rampant in the areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as this paper shows
that the money supply if the government can use it in the long term, will lead to the transfer
of the national economy in the right direction
One of the negative aspects of this study is that it relied on World Bank data to
identify inflation rates and total fixed capital formation, while the data on per capita GDP
from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and money supply in its broad sense.
From the Palestinian Monetary Authority. On the reasonableness of this data. Therefore,
we recommend a follow-up study using a data set collected by a different but equally
reliable institution. In addition, our study focused on Palestine, the only country in the
world under occupation that lacks the most important requirement for a national currency,
which is sovereignty over the land. It is necessary to know how the Palestinian Monetary
Authority deals with three currencies within the economy of an occupying power.
Therefore, it would be advisable for future researchers to consider using our methodology
on other study variables. Despite these limitations, the paper makes a significant
contribution to monetary policymakers.
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