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This paper develops a simple model for measuring potential output that uses data on inflation, unemployment, and …
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In economies in transition, the development of financial markets is a common objective linking the monetary and fiscal authorities, while monetary and public debt management cannot be strictly separated. This calls for close coordination of objectives and instruments of monetary and debt...
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This paper reviews key areas of central banking reform in a sample of centrally planned economies undergoing transition to market-based systems. The discussion draws mainly on the experiences of four countries, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and China. Significant efforts have been made, or...
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's experience with 'inflation targeting lite' as described in Stone (2003). It finds that this monetary policy regime has been … associated with a general reduction in inflation, principally through a reduction in inflation expectations. The credibility the … Bank of Mauritius has established with its 'inflation targeting lite' regime has allowed it to shift from an emphasis on …
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In recent years a number of countries have undertaken far-reaching reforms of their financial sectors. Generally speaking, financial sector reforms aim at achieving greater flexibility of interest rates, an enhanced role for market forces in credit allocation, increased independence for the...
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The paper discusses the interrelationships between payments system reform and monetary policy implementation in selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The reforms in the payments system are viewed as closely interrelated with the development of money and foreign exchange markets and...
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higher food shares in CPI baskets, fuel intensities, and pre-existing inflation levels were more prone to experience … scores seem to have contained the impact of these shocks better. The effect of the presence of inflation targeting regimes … inflation responds to international commodity price shocks. …
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The paper conducts a comparative study of the monetary policy transmission in two economies that run a well-established IT regime, Chile and New Zealand, vis-à-vis two economies operating under relatively newer IT regimes, and which are exposed to a significant degree of dollarization, Peru and...
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This paper estimates a small open economy model for Egypt to analyze inflation, output dynamics and monetary policy … markets and a gradual move towards inflation targeting can help support a successful disinflation strategy for Egypt. …
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inflation targeting regimes. This paper finds that the interest-rate transmission mechanism, or the pass-through of the policy …
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