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Does the South African rand's relatively large volatility affect inflation? To shed some light on this question, a … standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …. Estimated results suggest that higher exchange rate volatility tends to increase core inflation but to a relatively limited …
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This paper focuses on the role of the pass-through of the exchange rate and policydeterminants in driving inflation …, nonfood prices not only directly influence headline inflation, but also have an significant impact on food inflation via … second round effects; (ii) the pass-through of the exchange rate to headline inflation has jumped from zero to 11 percent …
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This paper investigates the impact of fiscal shocks on inflation, using a large panel of 139 countries over the period … 1970–2021. First, both headline and core measures of inflation increase in response to expansionary shifts in the fiscal … with care in aggregate demand management as it has significant effects on inflation, which are highly dependent on fiscal …
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Inflation in low-income countries is often high and volatile, driven by external shocks. In addition, inflation in … stability. We estimate the drivers of inflation in Guinea since the early 2000s, a period in which the country suffered major … shocks from pandemics, commodity price movements, and multiple military coups, and during which inflation averaged 12 percent …
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We study a wide range of hybrid inflation-targeting (IT) and managed exchange rate regimes, analyzing their … implications for inflation, output and the exchange rate in the presence of various domestic and external shocks. To this end, we …
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Policymakers have relied on a wide range of policy tools to cope with capital flow shocks. And yet, the effects and interaction of these policies remain under debate, as does the motivation for using them. In this paper, quantile local projections are used to estimate the entire distribution of...
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This paper provides a dataset on the currency composition of the international investment position for a group of 50 countries for the period 1990-2017. It improves available data based on estimates by incorporating actual data reported by statistical authorities and refining estimation methods....
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The volatility of capital flows to emerging markets continues to pose challenges to policymakers. In this paper, we propose a new framework to answer critical policy questions: What policies and policy frameworks are most effective in dampening sharp capital flow movements in response to global...
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with the equilibrium exchange rate. In light of strong pass-through from exchange rate depreciation to domestic inflation …
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inflation rates, and future currency depreciation rates. They separate market expectations for the short-, medium-, and long …
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