Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy in Croatia
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Summary:
Exchange rate targeting is considered the best policy option in dollarized economies when wages and prices are indexed to the exchange rate. Croatia is a highly dollarized economy, but empirical investigation conducted in this paper shows that exchange rate pass-through has been low after stabilization. This finding, which is robust to different methodologies (VAR, cointegration), would suggest that dollarization is mostly limited to financial assets and therefore that strict exchange rate targeting may not necessarily be the best option. However, policy implications are unclear due to the endogeneity of the pass-through to the policy regime.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2002/109
Subject:
Econometric analysis Exchange rate adjustments Exchange rates Foreign exchange Inflation Price indexes Prices Vector autoregression
English
Publication Date:
June 1, 2002
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451853223/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA1092002
Pages:
34
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