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This paper attempts to explain short- and long-term dynamics of-and forecast-inflation in Tajikistan using the Vector … demonstrates that the exchange rate and international inflation have a strong impact on local prices. Available monetary …
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This is the third chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled "On Implementing Full-Fledged Inflation-Targeting Regimes …: Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say." It examines a number of elements in the design of an inflation …-targeting framework. These include the definition of the target variable, the relevance of core measures of inflation, and the advantages …
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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 with theory and most evidence for advanced and emerging market … economies, higher inflation increases inflation uncertainty and relative price variability in all WAEMU countries. However, the …
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In recent years a number of countries have undertaken far-reaching reforms of their financial sectors. Generally speaking, financial sector reforms aim at achieving greater flexibility of interest rates, an enhanced role for market forces in credit allocation, increased independence for the...
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toward an increase in expected inflation falls as debts increase beyond a certain threshold level. A debt …-constrained interest rate rule and the threshold level of debt are jointly estimated for Canada during the first decade of its inflation … loose than what inflation indicators called for. …
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This paper offers an in-depth review of the institutional arrangements underlying existing currency boards (CBAs) in Argentina (until 2001), Eastern Europe, and Asia. An index of precommitment is derived from an analysis of legislative frameworks and monetary policy operations. The index covers...
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these policy instruments. It commits to higher money supply in the future so that the private sector expects inflation …
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In economies in transition, the development of financial markets is a common objective linking the monetary and fiscal authorities, while monetary and public debt management cannot be strictly separated. This calls for close coordination of objectives and instruments of monetary and debt...
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This paper examines determinants of inflation in Ukraine during 1993-2002 in a cointegrating framework. Two basic …-2002 data, pointing inter alia to a greater role of administered prices in the CPI within a fairly mainstream inflation process … enters short-term inflation determinants. Prudent macroeconomic policies, grain harvests, and administrative decisions …
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This paper reviews the reserve requirement arrangements of sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the differences between reserve requirements on domestic- and foreign-currency deposits. The reserve requirement systems in sub-Saharan Africa are relatively simple and transparent, but in some countries...
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