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We provide a multidimensional characterization of monetary policy frameworks across three pillars: Independence and Accountability, Policy and Operational Strategy, and Communications (IAPOC). We construct the IAPOC index by analyzing central banks' laws and websites for 50 advanced economies,...
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targets for inflation. Using the recent experience of Colombia between 2004 and 2007, this paper examines the effectiveness of … the Central Bank''s intervention in stemming domestic currency appreciation under an inflation targeting regime. The … slowing down domestic currency appreciation, as large-scale intervention became incompatible with meeting the inflation target …
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The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market … impact on real and financial sectors, it does not preclude the use of inflation targeting as a policy regime …
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regime with macroeconomic performance, inflation in particular. Stability of the exchange rate has generally been a by …-product of other policy choices. Even announcement effects of the regime on inflation-fighting credibility depend on the country …
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. In this context, we test for greater fiscal dominance over 2000-2017 under Inflation Targeting (IT) and non-IT regimes … with greater exchange rate volatility, inflation volatility, and underlying commodity exposure exhibit stronger …
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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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provide evidence that FD is a rational response to inflation uncertainty. The paper builds on previous research by finding …
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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 Veacute;gh (1993 and 1999). A basic result is that IRRs, like Exchange...
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