IMF Staff Country Reports

Finland: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

September 16, 1996

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines inflation and wage dynamics in Finland. The paper discusses the data set used (quarterly data covering from 1975 to 1995) and the statistical properties of the relevant time series. It presents the model and the empirical estimates, and provides an outlook for consumer price index and nominal wage inflation for 1996:Q1–2001:Q4. The paper examines the determinants of the equilibrium real exchange rate, and also analyzes the Finnish banking system and the credit crunch hypothesis.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Labor, Money, Prices, Real exchange rates, Real wages

Keywords: Bank lending, CPI inflation, CR, Credit, Equilibrium exchange rate, Exchange rate, Exchange rates, Inflation, ISCR, Nominal wage inflation, Real exchange rates, Real wage growth, Real wages

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    96

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1996/095

  • Stock No:

    1FINEA0011996

  • ISBN:

    9781451813128

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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