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Monetary Policy Transmission in an Emerging Market Setting

By Ila Patnaik, Ajay Shah, Rudrani Bhattacharya

January 1, 2011

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Ila Patnaik, Ajay Shah, and Rudrani Bhattacharya. Monetary Policy Transmission in an Emerging Market Setting, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Some emerging economies have a relatively ineffective monetary policy transmission owing to weaknesses in the domestic financial system and the presence of a large and segmented informal sector. At the same time, small open economies can have a substantial monetary policy transmission through the exchange rate channel. In order to understand this setting, we explore a unified treatment of monetary policy transmission and exchangerate pass-through. The results for an emerging market, India, suggest that the most effective mechanism through which monetary policy impacts inflation runs through the exchange rate.

Subject: Central bank policy rate, Exchange rate pass-through, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Price indexes, Prices, Wholesale price indexes

Keywords: Central bank policy rate, Channel of monetary policy, East Asia, Exchange rate, Exchange rate pass-through, Exchange rates, Interest rate, Interest rate channel, Interest rate hike, Monetary policy transmission, Open economy, Price indexes, Sc, Transmission mechanism, Wholesale price indexes, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2011/005

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2011005

  • ISBN:

    9781455211838

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941