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Capital Flows and Financial Stability; Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Responses
Unsal, D. Filiz - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
challenges for policymakers: (i) to prevent capital flows from exacerbating overheating pressures and consequent inflation, and …," which calls for a rather aggressive monetary policy reaction to inflation, introducing macroprudential measures is found to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293772
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Israel; 2004 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Israel
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that Israel’s economic recovery is under way after a prolonged recession. Growth is being supported by more favorable global economic conditions, an improvement in the security situation, and appropriate policies, which have included tightening...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825350
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Chile; Institutions and Policies Underpinning Stability and Growth
Kalter, Eliot; Phillips, Steven; Singh, Manmohan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper presents the primary institutions and economic policies that have led to Chile’s remarkable record of stability and growth over the past twenty years. The core of this policy stance is the combination of fiscal discipline and an open trade policy regime, together with carefully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767351
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Inflation and the Cost of Living
Jacobs, David; Perera, Dilhan; Williams, Thomas - In: RBA Bulletin (2014) March, pp. 33-46
This article looks at increases in the cost of living for Australian households over the past decade. Inflation as … inherent conceptual differences and measurement issues. Even so, other measures of the cost of living have increased by a … similar amount to the CPI over the past decade. Measured inflation has been higher for some households and socio …
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Ghana; 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Ghana
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
The 2007 Article IV Consultation reports on Ghana’s recent economic and policy development. Public Financial Management (PFM) has been strengthened through improvements in fiscal reporting and deployment of the new computerized payroll management system. Executive Directors commended the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244661
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Sticky Wages, Incomplete Pass-Through and Inflation Targeting: What is the Right Index to Target?
Abo-Zaid, Salem M. - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2009
This paper studies monetary policy rules in a small open economy with Inflation Targeting, incomplete pass-through and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015150
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Inflation, Macroeconomic Policy and Hunger: A Variation on a Theme by C. Rangarajan
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
sensitive to commodity (in particular foodgrain) prices. Hence, reducing consumer price inflation is likely to yield a rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861942
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Editor’s Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 1-4
decade on price measurement. A final article discusses the role of information technology in the US growth resurgence. …
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The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later
Gordon, Robert J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 7-22
The author summarizes the report’s methods, findings, and recommendations, and then reviews the comments and criticisms that appeared soon after the report was issued. Changes in CPI methodology are also summarized and assessed, as is recent research on related issues. Based on recent...
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The BLS Response to the Boskin Commission Report
Greenlees, John S. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 23-41
The author provides a BLS response to the Boskin Commission from the perspective of ten years following the release of the report. He documents the research on price indexes done at the BLS in the first half of the 1990s that pointed to upward CPI bias, and discusses how these results eventually...
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