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through the effects that monetary policy has on short and long term nominal interest rates, asset prices, exchange rates, bank …
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The Slovak Republic’s 2005 Article IV Consultation reports that sound macroeconomic management and a wide range of fundamental structural reforms are supporting nominal convergence with European Union norms. Real GDP growth accelerated to 6 percent in 2005, driven by an improvement in the...
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This paper presents key findings of the Third Review under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI) in Rwanda. Program performance was broadly satisfactory. All end-June quantitative assessment criteria were met. Structural benchmarks were partially met as the pace of implementation of structural...
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high oil prices. Executive Directors commended the Federal Reserve for its monetary tightening. They recognized that the …
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This Selected Issues paper for the Republic of Korea focuses on the role of monetary policy in the current context of slowing growth and rising inflation pressures. Korea has not remained immune to the global slowdown, and with the cycle turning downward, the trade-off between inflation and...
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Models with sticky prices predict that monetary policy changes will affect relative prices and relative quantities in … the short run because some prices are more flexible than others. In U.S. micro data, the degree of price stickiness … not. Short-run responses of relative prices have the wrong sign. And monetary policy shocks seem to have persistent …
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We investigate the extent to which inflation targeting helps anchor long-run inflation expectations by comparing the behavior of daily bond yield data in the United Kingdom and Sweden--both inflation targeters--to that in the United States, a non-inflation-targeter. Using the difference between...
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