Empirical Analysis of High-Inflation Episodes in Argentina, Brazil, and Israel

International Monetary Fund

No 1988/068, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Although accommodative policies and widespread indexation may account for the persistence of high inflation, they cannot explain changes in the inflation rate. This paper examines the causes of such changes for the high-inflation episodes immediately preceding the recent “heterodox” attempts at stabilization in Argentina, Brazil, and Israel. An attempt is made to distinguish between the “fiscal” and “balance of payments” views of the causes of high inflation by computing historical decompositions of these episodes based on vector autoregressions. In all three cases, the results indicate that nominal exchange rate shocks played the dominant role in triggering an acceleration of inflation.

Keywords: WP; base money growth; moving average; rate of inflation; exchange rate depreciation; high-inflation equilibrium; high-inflation episode; low-inflation equilibrium; world inflation rate; Inflation; Monetary base; Exchange rates; Government debt management; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28
Date: 1988-01-01
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