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This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
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We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence...
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We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...
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This study examines money demand and inflation dynamics in the Islamic Republic of Iran using quarterly data for the … long-run money market equilibrium condition is identified and the short-run behavior of the inflation, measured in terms of …/01-2001/02 buoyed the demand for domestic money and contributed to the decline in inflation. Tests of model stability do not point to a …
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The paper reviews the policy response of major central banks during the 2007–08 financial market turbulence and suggests that there is scope for convergence among central bank operational frameworks through the adoption of those elements that proved most instrumental in calming markets. These...
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This paper explores the hypothesis that the dollarization of liabilities in emerging market economies is the result of a lack of monetary credibility. I present a model in which firms choose the currency composition of their debts so as to minimize their probability of default. Decreasing...
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We develop a multicountry model in which governments aim at excessive spending in order to serve the narrow interests of the group in power. This puts pressure on the monetary authorities to extract seigniorage, and thus affects the incentives countries would have to participate in a monetary...
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This paper classifies countries that define their monetary policy framework by an inflation target into full …-fledged inflation targeters, eclectic inflation targeters and inflation targeting lite regimes. This classification is based on … indicators of the clarity and credibility of the commitment to the inflation target. The three regimes can be viewed as …
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transmission of inflation from India. Because the Nepali currency is pegged to the Indian rupee and the two countries share an open … border, price developments in Nepal would be expected to mirror to those in India. The results show that inflation in India … and inflation in Nepal tend to converge in the long run. Our estimates indicate that the passthrough of inflation from …
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