Imported inflation and monetary policy

The present paper examines the thesis that monetary policy cannot be used as a weapon against domestic inflation in a surplus country under a regime of fixed exchange rates. The conditions under which the effective execution of domestic monetary policy is hampered by a balance-of-payments surplus ar...

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Main Authors: I.O. Jr. SCOTT, W.E. SCHMIDT
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Economia civile 2014-02-01
Series:PSL Quarterly Review
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Online Access:https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/11686