Inflation in Pakistan: Money or Wheat?

March 1, 2006

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Mohsin S. Khan, and Axel Schimmelpfennig. Inflation in Pakistan: Money or Wheat?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

This paper examines the relative importance of monetary factors and structuralist supply-side factors for inflation in Pakistan. A stylized inflation model is specified that includes standard monetary variables (money supply, credit to the private sector), the exchange rate, as well as the wheat support price as a supply-side factor that has received considerable attention in Pakistan. The model is estimated for the period January 1998 to June 2005 on a monthly basis. The results indicate that monetary factors have played a dominant role in recent inflation, affecting inflation with a lag of about one year. Changes in the wheat support price influence inflation in the short run, but not in the long run. Furthermore, the wheat support price matters only over the medium term if accommodated by monetary policy.

Subject: Agricultural prices, Consumer price indexes, Inflation, Monetary base, Price incentives

Keywords: Support price, Wheat support price, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

28
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2006/060
Stock No:

WPIEA2006060
ISBN:

9781451863208
ISSN:

1018-5941

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