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Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System can be expressed as a stable function of ERM-wide income, inflation, interest …
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The paper evaluates whether a monetary aggregate can serve as a useful predictor of inflation, using recent … of return variables. However, deviations of M2 from its long-run equilibrium value do not significantly enhance inflation …. Nevertheless, changes in M2 do contain information about future inflation, consistent with the view that the demand for money …
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This paper presents estimates of a demand function for broad money in Japan. The function explains both secular trends in broad money during the 1970s and 1980s and the sharp decline in the income velocity of broad money during 1986-88. The inclusion of wealth and a measure of the return on...
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This paper presents key findings of the Third Review under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI) in Rwanda. Program performance was broadly satisfactory. All end-June quantitative assessment criteria were met. Structural benchmarks were partially met as the pace of implementation of structural...
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This Selected Issues Paper on Iran reviews that monetary factors are the main determinants of inflation in the country … growing discontent with inflation, however, has compelled policymakers to focus on this issue, bringing it to the forefront of …
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environment, inflation fell significantly to 2¾ percent in 2004—the lowest inflation rate since the early 1970s. The return of …
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This paper assesses the First Review Under the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for Afghanistan. The authorities have met all of the indicative quantitative targets set out under the SMP and all the structural benchmarks, except the benchmark on licensing of commercial banks, which was only partly...
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impact of monetary and exchange rate policies on inflation, including the nature of the lags involved. It reviews …
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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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