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This paper examines the impact of a monetary policy shock on output, prices, and the nominal effective exchange rate … main results suggest that an exogenous increase in the short-term interest rate tends to be followed by a decline in prices … variations in the short-term interest rate account for significant fluctuations in the nominal exchange rate and prices, while …
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This paper explores the sources of inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa by examining the relationship between inflation, the output gap, and the real money gap. Using heterogeneous panel cointegration estimation techniques, we estimate cointegrating vectors for the production function and the real...
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This paper uses a two-sector model to estimate the relationship between prices, money, and the exchange rate in … monetary aggregates, domestic prices, real income, and foreign interest rates. In addition, the error-correction model shows …
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-through to prices, and interest rate policy following, rather than leading, financial market developments. Our estimated monetary …
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factors argued to explain the differences in the trends in core inflation and relative prices in the United Kingdom, the Euro …
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This paper estimates the importance of the cost channel of monetary policy in a New Keynesian model of the business cycle. A model with nominal rigidities is extended by assuming that a fraction of firms need to borrow money to pay their wage bill. Hence, monetary policy tightenings increase...
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international prices and exchange rate depreciation indicate a significant pass-through of import prices. In the short run, external … shocks of international prices and the exchange rate account for most variations in inflation, but domestic shocks to money …
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This paper applies a state-space approach to estimate the implicit inflation target of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) since the adoption of the Inflation Targeting (IT) framework. The paper's findings are two. First, although the official inflation target range is 3.6 percent, in...
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factors, including those captured through upstream foreign commodity and producer prices, have been important drivers of non …
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Using a consistent dataset and methodology for all eight member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) from 1994 to 2009, this paper provides evidence of the two major channels for real effects of inflation: inflation uncertainty and relative price variability. In line...
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