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A strong policy framework and improved income distribution and social outcomes have been important accomplishments in Brazil. The 2012 Article IV Consultation highlights that financial stability in Brazil has been underpinned by a strong banking system and framework for regulation and...
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Upon entry into the European Union, countries become members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), with a derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national currency with the euro, but can choose when to request...
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This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that the Czech Republic’s GDP expanded by 3.1 percent in 2003 and the first quarter of 2004, mainly supported by household consumption. Investment was also strong in 2003—driven by spending on public infrastructure—and swelled in...
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The recent global financial crisis has exposed the limitations of a conventional inflation targeting framework in … and inflation. Possible refinements to the inflation targeting framework in Korea were investigated by taking into account … business cycle fluctuations by mitigating the buildup of factors that lead to large fluctuations in output and inflation. …
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Inflation in Southeastern European (SEE) countries has been comparable with euro area inflation, partly owing to on the … inflation-targeting regime pursued in Albania. The analysis also explores additional heterogeneity between SEE and other regions …
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The global financial crisis has exposed the limitations of a conventional inflation targeting (IT) framework in … inflation. Accordingly, we investigate possible refinements to the IT framework by incorporating financial stability …
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This paper uses a pairwise approach to investigate the main factors that have been driving inflation differentials in … the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region for the past two decades. The results suggest that inflation differentials in …
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Exchange rate-based inflation stabilization (ERBS) policies are associated with a boom-recession cycle in economic … forward-looking pricing behavior without inflation stickiness and attribute the slow decline in inflation to the consumption …-looking components of inflation weigh approximately equally in pricing behavior, and therefore, that inflation is partially sticky. The …
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In this paper three possible reasons are examined for a sluggish inflation response to a hard currency peg. Models of … credibility and the speed of private sector learning, which are shown to have a major impact on the speed of inflation adjustment …. But even if individual agents believe the government will not devalue, it is shown that inflation inertia can still arise …
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We examine the evolution of nontradable and tradable prices in the Indian economy over 1980-2002 and find widening differentials: the real exchange rate has been appreciating. This might seem unsurprising, since India's rapid per capita income growth suggests Balassa-Samuelson factors at play....
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