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Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...
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This paper explores the relationship between the constitutional entrenchment of central bank independence and inflation … by the "de jure" independence established in the central bank law, and inflation. We argue that the constitution is … constitution have a better inflation performance. …
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associated with changes in growth and inflation. Coporate spreads are also a leading indicator of growth and inflation. While …
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been based on discretionary targeting of broad money without any clear target to anchor inflation expectations. This paper … are required to strengthen the ability of the CBY in achieving low and stable rates of inflation over the medium term. …
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This paper discusses how the choice of central banks' operating targets influences the use of their monetary policy instruments and how the latter affect the central bank's balance sheet. This is of particular interest, since the monetary conditionality in IMF-supported programs has...
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-looking specifications, especially when targeting core components of GDP and inflation, and combine the best parts of efficiency and …
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We develop a semi-structural new-Keynesian open-economy model, with separate food and non-food inflation dynamics, for …-relevant exercises. First, we filter international and Kenyan data (on output, inflation and its components, exchange rates and interest … inflation. Third, we perform an out-of-sample forecast to identify where the economy—and therefore policy—was likely headed …
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We propose a model of the interbank money market with an explicit role for central bank intervention and periodic reserve requirements, and study the interaction of profit-maximizing banks with a central bank targeting interest rates at high frequency. The model yields predictions on biweekly...
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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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