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inflation targeting regime in the transmission from exchange rate movements to prices. We perform a set of robustness checks …
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Using both regression- and VAR-based estimates, the paper finds that the exchange rate pass-through to import prices for a large number of countries is incomplete and larger than the pass-through to export prices. Previous studies have reported similar results, which give rise to the puzzle that...
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explain the observed exchange rate and inflation variability as well as the fact that the regression and VAR estimates tend to …
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excluding interest on mortgate bonds) inflation did not increase significantly until December 2001, when positive nominal shocks …
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This paper describes the primary framework associating the four principal price indices in the system of economic statistics—the Producer Price Index (PPI), the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the Export and Import Price Indices (XPI and MPI)—with the macroeconomic value aggregates they...
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aftermath of the global financial crisis as CCA countries have entered a relatively low inflation environment. The pass …-through estimates could be used by the CCA monetary authorities for inflation projections. The absence of non-linearities in the pass …
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Determining the magnitude and speed of the exchange rate passthrough (ERPT) to inflation has been of paramount …-makers should continue to pursue low and stable inflation and develop a strong track record of prudent macroeconomic policies for …
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Does the South African rand's relatively large volatility affect inflation? To shed some light on this question, a … standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …. Estimated results suggest that higher exchange rate volatility tends to increase core inflation but to a relatively limited …
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Motivated by stylized facts pointing to a dominant role of imported inputs in transmitting external price shocks to domestic prices, this paper zooms in to study the pass-through of imported input costs to domestic producer prices. Our approach constructs effective input price indices from...
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