Small Open Economies with Frictions in Credit Markets: Target inflation or money growth when floating?
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I compare the relative merits of a policy of inflation targeting for small open economies with frictions in financial markets with an alternative floating regime that has a constant rate of domestic money growth. The differences between these two policies appear only in the dynamic properties of equilibria with credit rationing. When the probability of loan repayment is low, inflation targeting eliminates endogenous volatility when compared with a constant money growth, but equilibria remain indeterminate. When the probability of loan repayment is high, inflation targeting always improves on the stability of equilibria, and sometimes it also eliminates endogenous fluctuations.Download Info
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Paper provided by Universidad de Guanajuato, Department of Economics and Finance in its series Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers with number EC200903.Length: 37 pages
Date of creation: Jul 2009
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Keywords: Floating exchange rates; Inflation targeting; Multiple reserve requirements; Private Information; Stabilization; Endogenous volatility;Find related papers by JEL classification:
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