Israel: Selected Issues

April 18, 2005

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Israel: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines Israel’s monetary policy regime with an eye toward developing some understanding of why breaches have been occurring and how to address them. The paper provides a brief history of Israel’s experience with inflation and inflation targeting. It examines several institutional aspects of inflation targeting and compares Israel with other emerging market regimes. Various procedural issues associated with implementing an inflation-targeting regime in Israel are examined. The paper also analyzes active labor market policies in Israel.

Subject: Active labor market policies, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Labor, Monetary policy, Prices, Unemployment, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Active labor market policies, Africa, Asia and Pacific, Central bank credibility, CR, Inflation, Inflation target, Inflation targeting, Inflation-targeting regime, ISCR, Monetary policy committee, North America, OECD country, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Wage

Publication Details

Pages:

44
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/134
Stock No:

1ISREA2005002
ISBN:

9781451819571
ISSN:

1934-7685

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