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The authors analyze the dynamics of national saving-investment relationships to determine the degree of international … and investment in the long run as reflecting a solvency constraint, rather than as evidence of limited capital mobility … (Feldstein and Horioka 1980). As in Jansen (1996, 1998), the authors also examine the short-term saving-investment relationship …
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correction methodology, the paper found the exchange rate pass-through into Nigeria's CPI inflation to be incomplete. The long …
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This study describes a semi-structural New-Keynesian Quarterly Projection Model (QPM) for the WAEMU zone. In the context of a fixed exchange rate regime and relatively tight capital controls, the central bank for the WAEMU monetary union (Banque Centrale des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest,...
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One of the most dramatic events in Nigeria over the past decade was the devaluation of the Nigerian naira with the adoption of a structural adjustment programme (SAP) in 1986. A cardinal objective of the SAP was the restructuring of the production base of the economy with a positive bias for the...
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This paper assesses the adjustment of inflation with financial dynamic fundamentals of money (financial depth), credit … between inflation and the fundamentals. (2) The error correction mechanism is stable in all specifications but in case of any … disequilibrium, only financial depth is significant in adjusting inflation to the long-run relationship. (3) In the long-run, short …
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The paper examines the effect of exchange rate changes on consumer prices in Ghana using vector autoregression (VAR …) models. Using a data set covering the period 1990M01-2009M02, we find that the exchange rate pass-through to inflation is … ‘incomplete' and decreasing in Ghana. Our empirical results indicate a low but significant pass-through in the short run.We argue …
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past decade. Design/methodology/approach - We limit our sample to a panel of African countries for which inflation is non …) There are significant long-run equilibriums between inflation and each financial dynamic. (2) When there is a disequilibrium …, while only financial depth and financial size could be significantly used to exert deflationary pressures, inflation is …
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in absolute measures have positive elasticities of inflation; while (2) financial efficiency and size in relative … measures have negative elasticities of inflation. Social implications - This paper helps in providing monetary policy options …
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This paper assesses the adjustment of inflation with financial dynamic fundamentals of money (financial depth), credit … between inflation and the fundamentals. (2) The error correction mechanism is stable in all specifications but in case of any … disequilibrium, only financial depth is significant in adjusting inflation to the long-run relationship. (3) In the long-run, short …
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Central Bank of Nigeria should pay more attention to the trend of inflation and pursue policies that will ensure single digit … inflation. …
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