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This paper considers the consequences of international financial market integration for national fiscal and monetary policies that derive from the absence of an international sovereign authority to define and enforce contractual obligations across borders. The sovereign immunity of national...
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In this paper, we analyze how lack of credibility and transparency of monetary and fiscal policies undermines the effectiveness of macroeconomic policies to isolate the economy from commodity price fluctuations. We develop a general equilibrium model for a commodity-exporting economy where macro...
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This paper discusses the unique aspects of Singapore’s financial, exchange rate, and wage policies during the period … appropriate wage policy is complementary to exchange rate policy in maintaining external competitiveness in Singapore …
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Singapore''s policymakers have often used fiscal policy as a counter-cyclical tool. Empirical results based on a …
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore, instead of relying on short-term interest rates or monetary aggregates as its … Singapore is controlling inflation. The estimated changes in the TWI track the actual change relatively well, and the estimated … parameters are as expected. Accordingly, they support the hypothesis that monetary policy in Singapore can be described by a …
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, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand since the early 1980s. The empirical results indicate continuing instability in the …
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This paper jointly analyzes the optimal conduct of monetary policy, foreign exchange intervention, fiscal policy, macroprudential policy, and capital flow management. This policy analysis is based on an estimated medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the world...
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This paper explores the causes and consequences of fiscal dominance over monetary policy in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Fiscal dominance has always been a pressing problem as it can contribute to inflation and macroeconomic instability, and increasingly so as fiscal deficits and public debt are...
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