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Using quarterly time-series data for a sample of twelve industrial countries, the paper investigates the dynamics of nominal wage and price adjustments in the face of aggregate demand shocks. The evidence illustrates patterns of the wage-price spiral and accompanying fluctuations. During...
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persistent budget deficits and inflation. The paper also provides a rigorous analysis of household savings and money demand in a …
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This paper analyses inflation dynamics in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) using a …. Imported commodity price shocks are significant in explaining inflation in the region. Governments are another driving force of … inflation dynamics mainly through controlled prices and the role of capital expenditure in domestic activity. In most CEMAC …
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The paper investigates the divergence between inflation and monetary expansion in Zimbabwe since late 2003. The … substantial decline in velocity and increasing levels of real money balances during 2004 are at odds with a record of inflation … such as repressed inflation (given administered prices) or measurement errors in the consumer price index. The results of …
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This paper analyzes the effects of intervention on the level and volatility of the exchange rate in Mexico and Turkey, two emerging countries that have floating exchange rate regimes. The paper finds mixed evidence on the effectiveness of intervention. In Mexico, foreign exchange sales have a...
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We examine the implications of high degrees of dollarization for the choice of exchange rate regime and the information content of various monetary aggregates in developing countries. We conclude that a high degree of currency substitution argues for a more fixed exchange rate regime, while...
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This paper examines the question of how to design an optimal and sustainable exchange rate regime in a world economy of two interdependent countries. It develops a Barro-Gordon type two-country model and compares noncooperative equilibria under different assumptions of monetary policy...
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inflation. We discuss dollarization, administrative interventions, and other features complicating monetary policy transmission …
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stability has helped anchor price movement in the ECCU. As the same time, inflation in the ECCU is not entirely imported from …
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This paper revisits the link between the nominal exchange rate regime and inflation, based on a sample of 145 emerging … low inflation benefits associated with pegging the exchange rate. To test our hypothesis, we exploit a novel dataset of … significantly lower inflation in EMDCs than flexible exchange rates, and that this effect is much stronger for de facto pegs that …
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