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The Flexible System of Global Models (FSGM) is a group of models developed by the Economic Modeling Division of the IMF for policy analysis. A typical module of FSGM is a multi-region, forward-looking semi-structural global model consisting of 24 regions. Using the three core modules focused on...
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This paper examines the impact of a monetary policy shock on output, prices, and the nominal effective exchange rate … main results suggest that an exogenous increase in the short-term interest rate tends to be followed by a decline in prices … variations in the short-term interest rate account for significant fluctuations in the nominal exchange rate and prices, while …
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This paper explores the sources of inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa by examining the relationship between inflation, the output gap, and the real money gap. Using heterogeneous panel cointegration estimation techniques, we estimate cointegrating vectors for the production function and the real...
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trade. Prices of final consumption goods are sticky in the consumer's currency. Pursuing an inward-looking policy, as … price indices is dominated by rules that allow for some fluctuations in prices such as nominal income or monetary targeting. …
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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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Monetary policy in Yemen is largely rudimentary and ad hoc in nature. The Central Bank of Yemen's (CBY) approach has been based on discretionary targeting of broad money without any clear target to anchor inflation expectations. This paper argues in favor of a new formal monetary policy...
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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 activity and sustained real exchange rate appreciation. A class of models in the literature has explained these empirical regularities with the lack of credibility of 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 …
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-through to prices, and interest rate policy following, rather than leading, financial market developments. Our estimated monetary …
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