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

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...

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, on a theoretical level we introduce a series-type instrumental variable (IV) estimator of the parameters of a spatial first order autoregressive model with first order autoregressive disturbances. We demonstrate that our estimator is asymptotically...

This paper examines the performance of nominal income targeting as a possible direction for monetary policy. The existing literature consists of historical counterfactual simulations to determine how economic performance might have differed if this policy had been adopted. To provide better...