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Sources of Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Mr. Shanaka J Peiris
  • Régis Barnichon

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This paper explores the sources of inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa by examining the relationship between inflation, the output gap, and the real money gap. Using heterogeneous panel cointegration estimation techniques, we estimate cointegrating vectors for the production function and the real money demand function to recover the structural output and money gaps for seventeen African countries. The central finding is that both gaps contain significant information regarding the evolution of inflation, albeit with a larger role played by the money gap. There is no significant evidence of asymmetry in the relationship.

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  • Mr. Shanaka J Peiris & Régis Barnichon, 2007. "Sources of Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa," IMF Working Papers 2007/032, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2007/032
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