Abstract
This paper presents an estimate of the demand for money in Afghanistan. The basic problem is the lack of reliable price data.' However, Da Afghanistan Bank (the central bank) has recorded the free-market foreign exchange rates daily since 1951.2 They are used to overcome this difficulty through an application of the purchasing-power-parity theory to construct a domestic price index. The purchasing-power-parity theory states that
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