Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy in Croatia

June 1, 2002

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Leo Bonato, and Andreas Billmeier. Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy in Croatia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

Exchange rate targeting is considered the best policy option in dollarized economies when wages and prices are indexed to the exchange rate. Croatia is a highly dollarized economy, but empirical investigation conducted in this paper shows that exchange rate pass-through has been low after stabilization. This finding, which is robust to different methodologies (VAR, cointegration), would suggest that dollarization is mostly limited to financial assets and therefore that strict exchange rate targeting may not necessarily be the best option. However, policy implications are unclear due to the endogeneity of the pass-through to the policy regime.

Subject: Econometric analysis, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Price indexes, Prices, Vector autoregression

Keywords: Cointegration, Croatia, Distribution chain, DM exchange rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate appreciation, Exchange rate movement, Exchange rate shock, Exchange rates, HWWA commodity price index, Inflation, Pass-through, Price indexes, Price level, Retail price index, Time series, VAR, Vector autoregression, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

34
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/109
Stock No:

WPIEA1092002
ISBN:

9781451853223
ISSN:

1018-5941

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