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This paper examines the reaction of the bilateral Ch$/US$ exchange rate to monetary policy actions in Chile and the United States. The approach is to regress the change in the exchange rate following a policy announcement on changes in market interest rates in response to the same announcement....
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lowering inflation. Such recent developments have brought to the forefront the idea that freely mobile capital, independent … all three. Inflation-targeting regimes being adopted by many countries provide a way of resolving this dilemma …
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The member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation have set as a target the achievement of an economic union by 2020. Reaching this goal will require greater levels of monetary cooperation. How should this be achieved? Data from South Asia suggest that member states have...
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This paper analyzes the behavior of output during currency crises using a sample of 195 crisis episodes in 91 developing countries during 1970-98. It finds that more than two-fifths of the crises in the sample were expansionary, and that output contraction was greater in large and more developed...
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This paper highlights the importance of debt composition in setting optimal fiscal and monetary policy over short-run business cycles and in the long run. Nominal debt as state-contingent debt can be a significant policy tool to reduce the volatility of distortionary government policy, thereby...
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This paper examines the cost of deflation in the context of Japan''s ongoing deflationary episode. The impact of deflation owing to the zero interest rate bound on monetary policy, wage rigidity, redistribution of wealth from debtor to creditor, and inflexibilities in the financial sector are...
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the interest spread contains little information that can be used for predicting future economic activity. The term …
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with different degrees of liability dollarization. The paper answers the question of how efficient it is to use inflation …
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, which involves a commitment to higher future inflation. This commitment mechanism works even though, realistically, the …
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variable (interest rate) to fundamental ones (inflation and output gap). This study looks for empirical evidence of a more … sophisticated monetary policy, one which takes into account expected future developments. An important piece of information added is … inflation shocks. These shocks are significant in the estimated Taylor rule, confirming that policymaking is forward looking …
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