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Capital Flows in a Transitional Economy and the Sterilization Dilemma: The Hungarian Case

By Pierre L. Siklos

August 1, 1996

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Pierre L. Siklos Capital Flows in a Transitional Economy and the Sterilization Dilemma: The Hungarian Case, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper compares Hungary’s experience with sterilization with that of other capital inflow episodes. The study focuses on the short-run impact of sterilization on monetary policy. The empirical data indicate that sterilized interventions by the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) were not significant until mid-1994, sometime after the return to power of the former Communist leaders. Thus, in the second half of 1994, the NBH began to demonstrate more firmly its independence by tightening monetary policy. By the beginning of 1995, the direction of fiscal policy had begun to show consonance with the overall aims of monetary policy.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital flows, Central banks, Demand for money, Foreign exchange, Monetary base, Money, Real exchange rates, Sterilization

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Capital, Capital flows, Credit creation, Demand for money, Eastern Europe, Exchange rate, Monetary base, Monetary policies in the transitional economies, Monetary policy, Money stock, NBH data source, NBH governor, Proxy monetary policy action, Reaction function, Real exchange rates, South America, Sterilization, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1996/086

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0861996

  • ISBN:

    9781451850833

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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