Riding the Wave: Monetary Responses to Aid Surges in Low-Income Countries.

We focus on the management of highly persistent shocks to aid flows in the presence of currency substitution by the domestic private sector. Such shocks have beneficent long-run effects, but when currency substitution is high they can produce dramatic macroeconomic management problems in the short r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Buffie, E, Adam, C, Connell, S, Pattillo, C
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2008