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This paper analyses the dynamics of inflation in Kenya during 1974–96, a period characterized by external shocks and … exchange rate, foreign prices, and terms of trade have long-run effects on inflation, while the money supply and interest rate … only have short-run effects. The dynamics of inflation are also found to be influenced by food supply constraints. Moreover …
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This empirical study for South Africa indicates that there exists a stable money demand type of relationship among domestic prices, broad money, real income, and interest rates, as well as a long-run relationship among domestic prices, foreign prices, and the nominal exchange rate. In the short...
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This paper applies cointegration analysis and error-correction modeling to investigate the behavior of broad money …
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The development of empirical foundations to the conduct of monetary policy in Tunisia is the central concern of this paper. Finding stable money demand functions, it broadly corroborates the choice of monetary aggregates as intermediate targets of monetary policy by the Tunisian Central Bank. It...
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money demand functions. Notably, it summarizes the salient features of a number of recent studies that applied cointegration …
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This paper adopts the bounds testing procedure developed by Pesaran et al. (2001) to test the stability of the long-run money demand for Ghana. The results provide strong evidence for the presence of a stable, well-identified long-run money demand during a period of substantial changes in the...
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-economy framework. Based on the cointegration and weak-exogeneity test results, short-run dynamic error-correction models are specified …
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-induced inflation anticipations that are typical to Guyana …
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income elasticity of less than unity. Current inflation is found to have a significant negative impact on the real money …
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In a case study of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, this paper finds that bilateral real exchange rates … growth prospects, the paper emphasizes the importance of increased trade, competitive labor markets, flexible exchange rates …
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