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exchange rate regimes and in countries with a higher income. A low inflation environment, a prudent monetary policy, and a …
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, and current account liberalization; and (ii) inflation and various determinants, including lagged inflation, the nominal … and the real exchange rate are significant determinants but not the exchange regime or liberalization; and for inflation …, the lagged inflation rate, nominal exchange rate, and the de facto regime are significant. Exchange rate pass-through is …
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moderate and inflation high. Executive Directors have advised that the focus should be on reducing fiscal vulnerabilities …, lowering inflation, promoting a stronger and more competitive banking system, and creating a favorable environment for …
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inflation. Unlike in the case of fuel-producing countries, the East African Community countries are major agricultural producers …
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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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inflation targeting regimes. This paper finds that the interest-rate transmission mechanism, or the pass-through of the policy …
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frameworks and some have implemented or are moving towards inflation targeting (IT) regimes. Strengthening the monetary policy …
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This paper presents a model for Inflation Targeting under imperfect policy credibility. It modifies the conventional … time; non-linearities in the inflation equation and in the credibility generating process; and an explicit loss function …. The model highlights problems associated with the practice of setting a series of rigid near-term inflation targets. Also …
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This is the fourth of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit to which economists have access for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In...
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This study examines the challenges and issues facing policymakers in highly dollarized economies. Focusing on Cambodia, which achieved almost complete dollarization during 1991-95, the authors review recent developments in the literature on dollarization and examine the costs and benefits of...
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