Pass-Through of External Shocks to Inflation in Sri Lanka

March 1, 2008

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Nombulelo Braiton. Pass-Through of External Shocks to Inflation in Sri Lanka, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper investigates pass-through of external shocks (exchange rate, oil price, and import price shocks) to inflation in Sri Lanka. The analysis is based on a vector autoregression (VAR) model that incorporates a distribution chain of pricing. The paper finds low and incomplete pass-through of external shocks to consumer inflation, reflecting a combination of factors including the existence of administered prices, high content of food in the consumption basket, and low persistence and volatility of the exchange rate. External shocks explain about 25 percent of the variation in consumer price inflation, reflecting room for domestic policies in controlling inflation.

Subject: Consumer prices, Exchange rates, Import prices, Inflation, Oil prices

Keywords: Core inflation, Pass-through coefficient, WP

Publication Details

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26
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Working Paper No. 2008/078
Stock No:

WPIEA2008078
ISBN:

9781451869392
ISSN:

1018-5941

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