Relationship Between Financial Development and Inflation: Evidence from Indonesia
Relationship Between Financial Development and Inflation: Evidence from Indonesia

Summary/Abstract: This research examines the relationship between financial development and inflation in Indonesia during the period of 1980 to 2016. In order to do that, it uses autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test to investigate the existence of long-run cointegration and Wald test to examine both short- and long-run Granger causality. Three different proxies are used to measure financial development; credit to private sector as a percentage of GDP, broad money (M2) as a percentage as GDP, and Financial Development Index. It is found, from empirical results, that long-run cointegration exists between financial development and inflation. It is also found that past value of both variables causes the future value of each other, but through different channels. Lastly, while inflation affects financial development negatively, financial development affects inflation positively.

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