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intervention than from the precrisis period. The exchange rate effect on inflation was thus in a better accordance with theory … authors examine the exchange rate influence on the inflation in Switzerland, separately for the pre-crisis and the …-through into inflation. Despite the effect's moderate influence, the decline was not immediate. The authors additionally analysed …
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structural Bayesian VAR. Four domestic and two global shocks are identified through zero and sign restrictions. For both … economies, we find that the main driver of consumer price inflation is the global demand shock. A negative global demand shock …
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The paper contributes to understanding the economic dynamics at the zero lower bound and the exchange rate movements under different central bank intervention regimes. It provides a theoretical framework for modeling foreign exchange interventions at the ZLB within a dynamic general equilibrium...
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Determining the exchange rate pass-through on inflation is a necessity for central banks as well as for firms and … short and long-term impact of an exchange rate shock on inflation along the distribution chain in the presence of … have showed that the accumulated PT on inflation of import prices rises from 20% in the first month of the exchange rate …
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. There is strong evidence of a positive and significant association between the pass-through and the average inflation rate … across countries and periods. The inflation rate, moreover, dominates other macroeconomic variables in explaining cross …
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This paper follows the Bayesian time-varying VAR approach with stochastic volatility developed by Primiceri (2005), to … experienced high inflation. The impact of an exchange rate shock on prices seems to slightly decrease across time. …
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What happens if a country devalues its currency? Standard macroeconomic theory would argue for expansionary effects …
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The removal of the lower bound on the EUR/CHF exchange rate in January 2015 provides a unique setting to study the implications of a large and sudden appreciation in an otherwise stable macroeconomic environment. Using transaction-level data on non-durable goods purchases by Swiss consumers, we...
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We look at a panel of Latin American countries from 1970 and 2016 to enquire how exchange rate pass-through has changed over time, and whether this owes to monetary or real shocks hitting the economy. We estimate conventional pass-through measures, both short and long run; then we obtain rolling...
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is a potentially important source of inflation in Ghana. Using variance decomposition analyses, it is found that monetary … policy implication of these findings is that policies that aim at lowering inflation must focus on monetary and exchange rate …
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