Woodford goes to Africa

Kang Yong Tan () and David Vines

No 29, WEF Working Papers from ESRC World Economy and Finance Research Programme, Birkbeck, University of London

Abstract: This paper analyses the effects of inflation shocks, demands shocks, and aid shocks on low-income, quasi-emerging-market economies, and discusses how monetary policy can be used to manage these effects. We make use of a model developed for such economies by Adam et al. (2007). We examine the e¤ects of four things which this model features, which we take to be typical of such economies. These are: the existence of a tradeables/non-tradeables production structure, the fact that international capital movements are - at least initially - confined to the effects of currency substitution by domestic residents, the use of targets for financial assets in the implementation of monetary policy, and the pursuit, in some countries, of a fixed exchange rate. We then modify the model to examine the effect on such economies of three major changes, changes which we take to be part of the transition by such economies towards more fully- fledged emerging-market status: an opening of the capital account so that uncovered- interest-parity comes to hold, a move to floating exchange rates, and the replacement of fixed stocks of financial aggregates by the pursuit of a Taylor rule in the conduct of monetary policy.

Keywords: currency substitution; emerging market macroeconomics; interactions between fiscal and monetary policy; Taylor rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 E61 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-cba, nep-mac and nep-mon
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