The Effects of Monetary Policy On Real Farm Prices in South Africa

Goodness Aye () and Rangan Gupta
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Goodness Aye: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria

No 201119, Working Papers from University of Pretoria, Department of Economics

Abstract: This study provides empirical evidence of aggregate, anticipated and unanticipated and asymmetric (positive and negative) effects of monetary policy on real agricultural prices in South Africa over the monthly period of 1970:01-2010:12. For this purpose, we use the Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model coupled with the monetary misperception model to distinguish between anticipated and unanticipated monetary policy shocks. Results show that the actual, anticipated and unanticipated monetary policy had significant effect on real farm prices. These findings are robust when the shocks are modelled as recursive residuals. Moreover, the positive monetary policy was consistently significant either at specific lags or jointly. With exception of the recursive anticipated monetary policy, the negative components were consistently insignificant. Further, the hypothesis of asymmetric effect was supported for the recursive anticipated monetary policy only. The effects observed in this study are quantitatively small and accounts for only a very small percentage (1.5 percent - 6.5 percent) of the variation in real farm prices.

Keywords: Monetary policy; real farm price; asymmetric effects; recursive residuals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 E52 Q11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2011-10
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Journal Article: THE EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY ON REAL FARM PRICES IN SOUTH AFRICA (2012)
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