Price Liberalization, Money Growth, and Inflation During the Transition to a Market Economy

June 1, 1999

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Ernesto Hernández-Catá. Price Liberalization, Money Growth, and Inflation During the Transition to a Market Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the influence of economic liberalization and monetary growth on inflation during the transition from central plan to market. It concludes that price decontrol had a substantial, one-time effect on the price level but no lasting effect on inflation; that economic liberalization broadly defined may have helped dampen price increases; and that monetary expansion has been the fundamental determinant of inflation in the region. The paper also finds that the intensity of liberalization has been related to geographic proximity to market economies, to the size of the underground economy, and to the degree of political freedom.

Subject: Consumer prices, Conventional peg, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Monetary expansion, Monetary policy, Price controls, Prices

Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe, Consumer prices, Conventional peg, Eastern Europe, Equilibrium price price level, Inflation, Liberalization, Liberalization effort, Liberalization variable, Monetary expansion, Money, Original de Melo-Denizer-Gelb liberalization index, Original de Melo-Denzier-Gelb liberalization index, Price, Price controls, Price Decontrol, Price liberalization, Transition, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

24
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1999/076
Stock No:

WPIEA0761999
ISBN:

9781451849851
ISSN:

1018-5941

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