Monetary Growth and Exchange Rate Depreciation As Causes of Inflation in African Countries: An Empirical Analysis

July 1, 1991

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Elie Canetti, and Joshua E. Greene Monetary Growth and Exchange Rate Depreciation As Causes of Inflation in African Countries: An Empirical Analysis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the relative importance of monetary growth and exchange rate depreciation as causes of inflation in a sample of 10 Sub-Saharan African countries. Causality tests and impulse response functions derived from vector autoregression (VAR) analysis suggest that both monetary expansion and exchange rate adjustments cause inflation in a number of these countries. However, the failure of the tests to attribute the bulk of the variance in inflation in most of the countries to either variable suggests either a problem with the statistical technique or that some other factor--perhaps structural bottlenecks or a measure of overall macroeconomic policy stance incorporating both monetary and exchange rate policy--may be even more important as a determinant of inflation in African countries.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Consumer prices, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Monetary expansion, Monetary policy, Prices

Keywords: Africa, Consumer prices, Country, Exchange rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate series, Exchange rate vis-à-vis, Exchange rates, Inflation, Inflation rate, Monetary expansion, Monetary growth, Movements in Africa, Price, Price data, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

49
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Working Paper No. 1991/067
Stock No:

WPIEA0671991
ISBN:

9781451848830
ISSN:

1018-5941

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