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This paper explores inflation dynamics and monetary policy in Bolivia. Bolivia's monetary policy framework has been … effective in stabilizing inflation in recent times. This has been a challenging task given high price volatility of key consumer … framework has contributed to the stabilization of inflation, with effective transmission through the bank lending channel, while …
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This paper presents a fear theory of the economy, based on the interplay between fear of rare disasters and the interest rate on safe assets. To do this, I study the macroeconomic consequences of government-administered interest rates in the neoclassical real business cycle model. When the...
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This paper provides a broad brush look at the impact of fluctuations in global food prices on domestic inflation in a … advanced economies, and less anchored inflation expectations in emerging economies than in advanced economies …
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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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We study the link between central bank independence and inflation by providing narrative and empiricial evidence based …, central banks turned into de facto development banks under the aegis of governments, sawing the seeds for high inflation. It … took the high inflation episodes of the 1970s and 1980s and the associated major decline in real income, and growing social …
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Asset allocation decisions of international investors are at the core of capital flows. This paper explores the impact of these decisions on long-term government bond yields, using a quarterly investor base dataset for 22 advanced economies over 2004-2012. We find that a one percentage point...
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Many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, like Benin, have scaled up public investment during the last decade. Such a strategy contributed to the improvement of infrastructure, but also to a build-up of debt vulnerabilities. Looking forward, the planned fiscal consolidation will result in some...
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The public sector, in carrying out its operations, often incurs foreign currency denominated liabilities and, as such, is exposed to exchange rate fluctuations that could affect the value of public debt to GDP ratios over time. This paper shows that converting foreign currency denominated flows...
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a modified event study framework. They are found to have a more prominent impact on inflation expectations and exchange …
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We evaluate and partially challenge the 'household leverage' view of the Great Recession. In the data, employment and consumption declined more in states where household debt declined more. We study a model where liquidity constraints amplify the response of consumption and employment to changes...
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