New Zealand: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
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Summary:
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix describes New Zealand’s evolving approach to inflation targeting. It describes the experience of New Zealand with inflation targeting, and discusses the motives behind the change in its approach toward a more flexible framework. The paper discusses the main features of New Zealand’s exchange rate cycle during the 1990s. It also analyzes some of the potential causes of exchange rate variability, and describes the effects of variability on other macroeconomic variables.
Series:
Country Report No. 1999/119
Subject:
Balance of payments Capital controls Exchange rates Foreign exchange Inflation Inflation targeting Monetary policy Price stabilization Prices Real exchange rates
English
Publication Date:
October 20, 1999
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451830217/1934-7685
Stock No:
1NZLEA0021999
Pages:
54
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