An Estimated DSGE Model for Monetary Policy Analysis in Low-Income Countries

December 1, 2007

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Shanaka J Peiris, and Magnus Saxegaard. An Estimated DSGE Model for Monetary Policy Analysis in Low-Income Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper evaluates monetary policy-tradeoffs in low-income countries using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model estimated on data for Mozambique taking into account the sources of major exogenous shocks, and level of financial development. To our knowledge this is a first attempt at estimating a DSGE model for Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa. Our simulations suggests that a exchange rate peg is significantly less successful than inflation targeting at stabilizing the real economy due to higher interest rate volatility, as in the literature for industrial countries and emerging markets.

Subject: Exchange rates, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Monetary base, Open market operations

Keywords: WP

Publication Details

Pages:

31
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Working Paper No. 2007/282
Stock No:

WPIEA2007282
ISBN:

9781451868456
ISSN:

1018-5941

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