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income growth will be divided between inflation and output growth, as well as "velocity" constraints that influence the path …-equation approach to the econometric problem of predicting how changes in nominal GNP growth will be divided between inflation and real … GNP growth. The results from the equation estimated through 1980 are used to examine the behavior of inflation during the …
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On June 20, 2018, the Executive Board approved the largest stand-by arrangement in the Fund's history, in support of Argentina's 2018-21 economic program. After an augmentation in October 2018, access under the arrangement amounted to USD 57 billion (1,227 percent of Argentina's IMF quota). The...
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The purpose of the mission was to improve the understanding of the conduct of monetary policy in an inflation targeting …
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, we document several potential fiscal dominance effects during 2000-2017 under Inflation Targeting (IT), and non …
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Existing proposals to escape from a liquidity trap and deflation, including my Foolproof Way,' are discussed in the … conclude that the Foolproof Way is likely to work well for Japan, which is in a liquidity trap now, as well as for the euro …
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Even when the exchange-rate plays no expenditure-switching role, countries may wish to have flexible exchange rates in order to free the domestic interest rate as a stabilization tool. In a setting with nontraded goods, exchange-rate movements may also enhance international risk sharing
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-rate targeting, 2) monetary targeting, 3) inflation targeting, and 4) monetary policy with an implicit but not an explicit nominal …
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The paper examines the robustness of Interest Rate Rules, IRRs, in the context of an imperfectly credible stabilization program, closely following the format of much of the literature in open-economy models, e.g., Calvo and Végh (1993 and 1999). A basic result is that IRRs, like Exchange Rate...
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This paper deals with the relationship between inflation targeting and exchange rates. I address three specific issues …: first, I analyze the effectiveness of nominal exchange rates as shock absorbers in countries with inflation targeting. This … volatility is different in countries with an inflation targeting regime than in countries with alternative monetary policy …
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reduced to a tractable canonical system in domestic inflation and the output gap. We employ this framework to analyze the … macroeconomic implications of three alternative monetary policy regimes for the small open economy: domestic inflation targeting … exchange rate volatility that they entail. We also discuss a special case for which domestic inflation targeting constitutes …
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