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Small Open Economies with Frictions in Credit Markets: Target inflation or money growth when floating?

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  • Paula Hernandez-Verme

    (Department of Economics and Finance, Universidad de Guanajuato)

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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.

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  • Paula Hernandez-Verme, 2009. "Small Open Economies with Frictions in Credit Markets: Target inflation or money growth when floating?," Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers EC200903, Universidad de Guanajuato, Department of Economics and Finance.
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    Keywords

    Floating exchange rates; Inflation targeting; Multiple reserve requirements; Private Information; Stabilization; Endogenous volatility;
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    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance

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