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Requirements for Using Interest Rates As An Operating Target for Monetary Policy: The Case of Tunisia

By Alain Durré, Bernard J Laurens, Alexandre Chailloux

July 1, 2009

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Alain Durré, Bernard J Laurens, and Alexandre Chailloux. Requirements for Using Interest Rates As An Operating Target for Monetary Policy: The Case of Tunisia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper discusses the use of interest rates as the operating target for monetary policy in Tunisia and the roadmap for establishing the other building blocks of an inflation targeting framework. It argues that strengthening the effectiveness of the current monetary policy framework will facilitate the adoption of inflation targeting over time.

Subject: Banking, Exchange rates, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Monetary base, Monetary policy, Monetary policy instruments, Money, Money markets, Prices

Keywords: Exchange rates, Global, Gradual adjustment, Inflation, Interest rate, IT framework, Middle East, Monetary base, Monetary frameworks, Monetary management, Monetary operations, Monetary policy, Monetary policy decision, Monetary policy implementation, Monetary policy instruments, Monetary policy interest rate, Monetary policy transmission mechanisms, Money market interest rate, Money markets, Nominal exchange rate, Reaction function, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    45

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2009/149

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2009149

  • ISBN:

    9781451872965

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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