Switzerland: Selected Issues

June 2, 2003

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Switzerland: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed December 25, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper takes a close look at the proximate determinants and short-term dynamics of inflation in Switzerland. It identifies salient features of the inflation experience in Switzerland. The paper uses a wage-price model to gauge the sensitivity of inflation to the business cycle and the exchange rate. The findings suggest that underlying inflation of about 1 percent reflects a slightly higher rate for domestic goods and services and low increases in prices of imported goods.

Subject: Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Output gap, Price stabilization, Prices, Production, Short term interest rates

Keywords: CR, Exchange rates, Global, Goods inflation, Inflation, Inflation expectation, Inflation-control target range, ISCR, Low-inflation record, Monetary policy, Output gap, Price, Price stabilization, Short term interest rates, Target inflation, Widening output gap

Publication Details

Pages:

52
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/149
Stock No:

1CHEEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451807257
ISSN:

1934-7685

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