Testing for Credibility Effects

Author/Editor:

Pierre-Richard Agénor ; Mark P. Taylor

Publication Date:

November 1, 1991

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Summary:

This paper examines some recent techniques designed to draw inferences about the credibility of changes in macroeconomic policy regimes. An alternative two-step approach, based on the decomposition between permanent and transitory components of a "credibility variable" is proposed. The methodology is then used to test for the existence of a credibility effect in the Cruzado stabilization plan implemented in Brazil in 1986.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1991/110

Subject:

Notes:

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 1992.

English

Publication Date:

November 1, 1991

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451853254/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1101991

Pages:

33

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