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This study examined the effects of mobile money-a recent innovation in Uganda’s financial-sector landscape-on aggregate …
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The paper presents the welfare cost of inflation in a banking time economy that models exchange credit through a bank … welfare cost of a 10% inflation rate instead of zero, for comparison to other estimates, as well as the cost of a 2% inflation … rate instead of a zero inflation rate. The zero rate is specified as the US inflation rate target in the 1978 Employment …
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inflation. The results also suggest that a disequilibrium in the money market has a lasting impact on inflation. The paper …
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Sharp exchange rate depreciations in the East Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand) raised doubts about the efficacy of increasing interest rates to defend the currency. Using a standard monetary model of exchange rate determination, this paper shows that tighter monetary...
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anti-inflation policy that has led to a sharp decline in inflation. To institute a monetary policy framework, a nominal … currency in circulation, conduct more sophisticated tests to assess the relationship between inflation and the monetary …
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Money has only limited information value for future inflation in Ghana over a typical monetary policy implementation …) are shown to be important predictors of future price changes. Inflation inertia is high and inflation expectations are … largely based on backward-looking information, suggesting that inflation expectations are not well anchored and hence more is …
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This paper analyzes interest rate pass-through in Ghana. Time series and bank-specific data are utilized to highlight linkages between policy, wholesale market, and retail market interest rates. Our analysis shows that responses to changes in the policy interest rate are gradual in the wholesale...
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transformed money demand, in addition to the observed output gap and inflation, into a simple but optimal interest rate rule …
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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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