of previously accumulated money will trigger a hyperinflation. This paper finds, instead, that whether a country’s fiscal …

Bolivia has achieved noteworthy success over the past 15 years in raising incomes, reducing poverty, and maintaining …

securities, they contributed to the four-digit inflation reached in 2006. The remedy for the current situation is clearly to …

Based on the observed behavior of monetary aggregates and exchange rates, we classify inflation-stabilization episodes …

This paper explores inflation dynamics and monetary policy in Bolivia. Bolivia's monetary policy framework has been … effective in stabilizing inflation in recent times. This has been a challenging task given high price volatility of key consumer … framework has contributed to the stabilization of inflation, with effective transmission through the bank lending channel, while …

This paper examines the demand for money under conditions of very high inflation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile …

Understanding the sources of inflation persistence is crucial for monetary policy. This paper provides an empirical … assessment of the influence of inflation expectations' anchoring on the persistence of inflation. We construct a novel index of … inflation expectations' anchoring using survey-based inflation forecasts for 45 economies starting in 1989. We then study the …

In recent years, the decline in inflation in Angola has stalled and further steps may be needed to attain the … digit inflation rate. A Vector Error Correction (VEC) model, which analyzes the factors that affect the inflationary process … in Angola, suggests that the inflation path has been largely affected by exchange rate movements. This implies that …

Inflation persistence is sometimes defined as the tendency for price shocks to push the inflation rate away from its … steady state—including an inflation target—for a prolonged period. Persistence is important because it affects the output … costs of lowering inflation back to the target, often described as the “sacrifice ratio”. In this paper I use inflation …