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Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 2002

The general view of the media, bankers, business and politicians, not noticeably contradicted by academics, is that one of the main functions, or the main function, of the central bank is to analyse the progress of the economy, and then to steer it with skilful judgement towards health and...

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IS INFLATION ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE A NON-MONETARY PHENOMENON: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA

David, KIHANGIRE Asiimwe; Albert, MUGYENYI - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of Uganda’s inflation rate during 1994M7-2005M6. We test the central hypothesis … that Uganda’s inflation rate is always and everywhere a non-monetary phenomenon. A theoretical background relating … inflation to monetary and other non-monetary factors is first analyzed before a detailed empirical analysis is done. We apply …

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Equity Returns and Inflation: The Puzzlingly Long Lags

Lothian, James R.; McCarthy, Cornelia H.. - EconWPA - 2001

equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …

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Are Optimal Currency Areas Optimal for All? A Reassessment of the Case for Asian Monetary Union

Saxena, Sweta C. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is a pioneering attempt to include India with east and Southeast Asia to study the existence of the economic criteria for a common currency. The analysis in this paper shows that significant complementarities in trade exist among these countries, most of them experience similar shocks...

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Can South Asia Adopt a Common Currency?

Saxena, Sweta C. - EconWPA - 2005

The paper examines if the seven South Asian countries satisfy the criteria to form an optimal currency area. The empirical part of the paper reveals some positive attributes (such as the existence of positive shocks for major economies like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The paper provides...

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Monetary Union in West Africa and Asymmetric Shocks: A Dynamic Structural Factor Model Approach

Houssa, Romain - EconWPA - 2004

We analyse the costs of a monetary union in West Africa by means of asymmetric aggregate demand and aggregate supply shocks. Previous studies have estimated the shocks with the VAR model.We discuss the limits of this approach and apply a new technique based on the dynamic factor model.The...

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A calibrated structural model of the Czech economy

Hlédik, Tibor - EconWPA - 2004

The paper presents a structural model framework for a small open economy. The model, based on optimising households and firms, has been calibrated on Czech macroeconomic data in order to develop an analytic framework suitable for analysing key policy questions related to the Czech Republic’s...

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Partisanship and fiscal policy co-ordination in a monetary union

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2001

Hibbs’ partisanship theory with the literature of fiscal policies international co- ordination. Furthermore, by considering …

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Wage and public expenditure setting in a monetary union

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2001

terms also of inflation may take place. In the case of co-operation between governments gains may accrue only in terms of … employment or inflation to one or the other country, if the weights put by the governments on price stability are different. This …

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Some empirical tests on the integration of economic activity between the euro area and the accession countries

Korhonen, Iikka - EconWPA - 2002

This note looks ata the correlation of short-term business cycles in the euro area and the Eu accession countries. This issue is assessed with the help of vector autoregressive models. There are clear differences in the degree of correlation between acces-sion countries. For Hungary and...

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