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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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been based on discretionary targeting of broad money without any clear target to anchor inflation expectations. This paper … are required to strengthen the ability of the CBY in achieving low and stable rates of inflation over the medium term. …
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tend to raise the general price level. In contrast to the accepted view, other prices do not seem to decline to offset the …
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Exchange rate-based inflation stabilization (ERBS) policies are associated with a boom-recession cycle in economic … forward-looking pricing behavior without inflation stickiness and attribute the slow decline in inflation to the consumption …-looking components of inflation weigh approximately equally in pricing behavior, and therefore, that inflation is partially sticky. The …
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This paper uses a two-sector model to estimate the relationship between prices, money, and the exchange rate in … monetary aggregates, domestic prices, real income, and foreign interest rates. In addition, the error-correction model shows … inflation. The results also suggest that a disequilibrium in the money market has a lasting impact on inflation. The paper …
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-through to prices, and interest rate policy following, rather than leading, financial market developments. Our estimated monetary … inflation. We discuss dollarization, administrative interventions, and other features complicating monetary policy transmission …
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factors argued to explain the differences in the trends in core inflation and relative prices in the United Kingdom, the Euro …
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We study the cyclical properties of sales, regular price changes and average prices paid by consumers ("effective …" prices) in a dataset containing prices and quantities sold for numerous retailers across a variety of U.S. metropolitan areas …. Both the frequency and size of sales fall when local unemployment rates rise and yet the inflation rate for effective …
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Union (WAEMU) from 1994 to 2009, this paper provides evidence of the two major channels for real effects of inflation …: inflation uncertainty and relative price variability. In line with theory and most evidence for advanced and emerging market … economies, higher inflation increases inflation uncertainty and relative price variability in all WAEMU countries. However, the …
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Recent developments and reforms in the Russian payments system are discussed from the perspective of their impact on monetary policy. The large and highly variable payment float in the balance sheet of the Central Bank of Russia has complicated the conduct of monetary policy. However, reforms in...
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