This selected issues paper on Indonesia was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background … the views of the government of Indonesia or the Executive Board of the IMF. …

This paper develops an approach for forecasting in Thailand core inflation. The key innovation is to anchor the … projections derived from the short-term time-series properties of core inflation to its longer-run evolution. This involves … goodness-of-fit criteria, with an equilibrium-correction model that pins down the convergence of core inflation to its longer …

government bonds and Short-term Bank Indonesia certificates (SBIs). The financial and corporate sectors were resilient to the …

inflation. The authorities need to take steps to encourage foreign direct investment, to make good on their plans for …

This Selected Issues paper takes a close look at the proximate determinants and short-term dynamics of inflation in … Switzerland. It identifies salient features of the inflation experience in Switzerland. The paper uses a wage-price model to gauge … the sensitivity of inflation to the business cycle and the exchange rate. The findings suggest that underlying inflation …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes inflation in Norway with a view to shedding light on this surprising development … and the possible near-term course of inflation, using statistical and econometric analyses. The paper reviews recent … developments of monetary policy and inflation in Norway, applies statistical and econometric tools to identify factors influencing …

This Selected Issues paper for Iceland reports that it faces a considerably less favorable inflation-output variability … of inflation breaching the tolerance band and help to lower the probability of such events occurring. To effectively … target inflation, central banks need to be forward looking, responding early to prospective demand pressures. Having housing …