Do Monetary Policy Outcomes Promote Stability in Fragile Settings?

By Oumar Diallo, Steve Loris Gui-Diby, Patrick A. Imam

May 20, 2022

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Oumar Diallo, Steve Loris Gui-Diby, and Patrick A. Imam Do Monetary Policy Outcomes Promote Stability in Fragile Settings?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2022) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

This paper assesses how monetary policy outcomes affect fragility. Diving into the universe of the most prominent combinations of pursued monetary policy objectives across fragile settings, we examine the relationships between monetary policy outcomes and fragility and find the combination of reduction of inflation and lower unemployment to be the one that delivers the highest payoff in terms of promoting peace and cohesion. Setting aside challenges of monetary policy transmission, results from our analysis broadly confirm the above “winning” combination, with low inflation as a primary desired outcome and low unemployment rate as a secondary one. We also carry out a series of robustness tests, which confirm our findings. Overall, our results lend credence to the importance of paying attention—in the context of reducing fragility—to monetary policy outcomes.

Subject: Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Labor, Monetary policy, Monetary policy frameworks, Price stabilization, Prices, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Exchange rates, Fragile settings, Fragility, Global, Inflation, Monetary policy, Monetary policy frameworks, Monetary policy outcome, Monetary policy transmission, Objectives, Outcome variable, Price stabilization, Pursued monetary policy objective, Unemployment rate

Publication Details

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55
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Working Paper No. 2022/096
Stock No:

WPIEA2022096
ISBN:

9798400211058
ISSN:

1018-5941

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