The exchange rate regime does make a difference for inflation performance. It is difficult to infer its effect on growth, but policy variables - and other variables influencing economic activity - do have different effects on growth under different exchange-rate arrangements. To examine whether...

To examine whether a country's exchange rate regime has any impact on inflation and growth performance in transition economies, the authors develop an empirical framework that addresses some of the main problems plaguing empirical work in this strand of the literature: the Lucas critique, the...

The exchange rate regime does make a difference for inflation performance. It is difficult to infer its effect on growth, but policy variables, and other variables influencing economic activity, do have different effects on growth under different exchange-rate arrangements

Spatial models whose weighting matrices have blocks of equal elements might be considered if units are viewed as equally distant within certain neighborhoods, but unrelated between neighborhoods. We give exact small sample results for such models that contain a spatially lagged-dependent...