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exhibiting signs of overheating, with imbalances evident in inflation, the current account, and external debt. GDP grew at an …
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This Selected Issues paper for Iceland reports that it faces a considerably less favorable inflation-output variability … of inflation breaching the tolerance band and help to lower the probability of such events occurring. To effectively … target inflation, central banks need to be forward looking, responding early to prospective demand pressures. Having housing …
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lowering inflation. Such recent developments have brought to the forefront the idea that freely mobile capital, independent … all three. Inflation-targeting regimes being adopted by many countries provide a way of resolving this dilemma. …
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This paper reviews the reserve requirement arrangements of sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the differences between reserve requirements on domestic- and foreign-currency deposits. The reserve requirement systems in sub-Saharan Africa are relatively simple and transparent, but in some countries...
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This paper uses vector autoregressions and impulse-response functions to construct a U.S. financial conditions index (FCI). Credit availability—proxied by survey results on lending standards—is an important driver of the business cycle, accounting for over 20 percent of the typical...
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The paper uses MULTIMOD to examine the implications of uncertain exchange rate pass-through for the conduct of monetary policy. From the policymaker's perspective, uncertainty about exchange rate pass-through implies uncertainty about policy multipliers and the impact of state variables on...
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This paper offers an in-depth review of the institutional arrangements underlying existing currency boards (CBAs) in Argentina (until 2001), Eastern Europe, and Asia. An index of precommitment is derived from an analysis of legislative frameworks and monetary policy operations. The index covers...
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