IMF Staff Country Reports

Mexico: Selected Issues

August 13, 2004

Download PDF

Preview Citation

Format: Chicago

Mexico: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed November 12, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes reserve adequacy in Mexico. Reserve adequacy has been of renewed interest, as the authorities have introduced a new rules-based mechanism of U.S. dollar sales to reduce the rate of reserve accumulation. The paper examines the recent experience with Mexico’s fiscal management tools in light of the need for further consolidation. It reviews evidence on the cyclical behavior of fiscal policy in Mexico, finding that it has generally been procyclical since the early 1990s. The paper also examines the determinants of inflation in Mexico since 1997.

Subject: Central banks, Currencies, Dollarization, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Monetary policy, Prices, Reserves accumulation, Revenue administration

Keywords: Adequacy ratio, Africa, CR, Dollar, Dollar movement, Dollar rate, Dollarization, Euro rate, Europe, Exchange rates, Global, Inflation, ISCR, North America, Price, Reserves accumulation, U.S. dollar, Western Hemisphere

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    86

  • Volume:

    ---

  • DOI:

    ---

  • Issue:

    ---

  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2004/250

  • Stock No:

    1MEXEA0012004

  • ISBN:

    9781451955613

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685