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Especially, after the 2000s, many developing countries let exchange rates float and began implementing inflation … implementing inflation targeting regimes experienced considerable appreciation trends in their currencies. Might have exchange … rates been utilized as implicit tools even under inflation targeting regimes in developing countries? To answer this …
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In the last decades, many developing countries abandoned their existing policy regimes and adopted inflation targeting … (IT) by which they aimed to control inflation through the use of policy interest rates. During the period before the … respect to depreciation and appreciation in order to hit their inflation targets. To that end, we analyze central banks …
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This paper investigates the determinants of equilibrium real exchange rates for the new EU member states and candidate countries, relying on an asset model inspired by Aglietta et al. (1998) and Alberola et al. (1999, 2002). The impact of productivity gains on both the Balassa-Samuelson effect...
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Inflation can "grease" the wheels of the labor market by relaxing downward wage rigidity but it can also increase … uncertainty and have a negative "sand" effect. This paper studies the grease effect of inflation by looking at whether the … interaction between inflation and labor market regulations affects how employment responds to changes in output. The results show …
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Inflation in low-income countries is often high and volatile, driven by external shocks. In addition, inflation in … stability. We estimate the drivers of inflation in Guinea since the early 2000s, a period in which the country suffered major … shocks from pandemics, commodity price movements, and multiple military coups, and during which inflation averaged 12 percent …
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This paper models alternative policy responses to various sorts of disturbances-or "shocks"-to the steady-state path of a developing economy. Its objective is to arrive at some generalizations about appropriate credit and exchange rate policies. (One result, for example, focuses on the folly of...
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