Money, Wages and Inflation in Middle-Income Developing Countries

By Pierre-Richard Agénor, Willy A Hoffmaister

December 1, 1997

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Pierre-Richard Agénor, and Willy A Hoffmaister. Money, Wages and Inflation in Middle-Income Developing Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed December 30, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the short-run links between money growth, exchange rate depreciation, nominal wage growth, the output gap, and inflation in Chile, Korea, Mexico, and Turkey, using a generalized vector autoregression analysis. Nominal historical wage shocks are shown to have an important effect on movements in inflation only in Mexico. Generalized impulse response functions show that a positive historical shock to nominal wage growth generates a transitory but significant reduction in output. Inflation increases in all countries, particularly Mexico. A positive shock to nominal money growth raises real cash balances on impact and exerts an expansionary effect on output, despite an increase in real wages.

Subject: Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Labor, Prices, Real wages, Wage adjustments, Wages

Keywords: And generalized VAR analysis, Consumer price inflation, Determinants of inflation, Exchange rates, Inflation, Inflation shock, Nominal wage, Nominal wage growth, Output gap, Real wages, VAR analysis, VAR innovation, VAR model, Wage adjustments, Wages, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

38
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1997/174
Stock No:

WPIEA1741997
ISBN:

9781451976991
ISSN:

1018-5941

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