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Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Management in Less Developed Countries
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Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Management in Less Developed Countries

Edward Buffie, M Airaudo and Felipe Zanna
Journal of international money and finance, v 81, pp 159-184
01 Mar 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.09.013View
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Abstract

Exchange Rate Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development (O23) Foreign Exchange (F31) Inflation International Linkages to Development, Role of International Organizations (O19) International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions (F33) LDCs Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development (O11) Monetary Monetary Policy (E52) Policy Price Level, Inflation, Deflation (E31)
We analyze coordination of monetary and exchange rate policy in a two-sector model of a small open economy featuring imperfect substitution between domestic and foreign financial assets. Our central finding is that tight management of the exchange rate greatly enhances the efficacy of inflation targeting. In a flexible exchange rate system, inflation targeting incurs a high risk of indeterminacy. Moreover, small inflation shocks may escalate into much larger increases in inflation ex post. Both problems disappear when the central bank fixes the path of the nominal exchange rate or leans heavily against the wind in a managed float.

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