Inflation and Monetary Pass-Through in Guinea

December 1, 2004

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Rodolphe Blavy. Inflation and Monetary Pass-Through in Guinea, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

The paper analyzes the dynamics of inflation in Guinea during 1992-2003 applying cointegration and error-correction modeling to a bivariate model that includes consumer price and monetary variables. The empirical results, based on quarterly data, confirm the existence of a long-run relationship between money supply and consumer prices. This paper argues further that the pass-through has increased in recent years. Short-term dynamics are shown to accentuate the long-run impact. Impulse response analysis shows that a shock in the money stock will have an increasing impact over two years and will then stabilize at a higher level.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Consumer prices, Demand for money, Inflation, Monetary base, Money, Prices

Keywords: Cointegration, Consumer price index market basket, Consumer price indexes, Consumer price inflation, Consumer prices, Demand for money, Error correction model, Error-correction modeling, Guinea, Inflation, Inflation equation, Inflation expectation, Inflation inertia, Inflation variable, Monetary base, Money growth, Money supply, Money-inflation relationship, Price level, Sub-Saharan Africa, Vector error correction, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

20
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2004/223
Stock No:

WPIEA2232004
ISBN:

9781451875324
ISSN:

1018-5941

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