Inflation and Monetary Pass-Through in Guinea
December 1, 2004
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Summary
The paper analyzes the dynamics of inflation in Guinea during 1992-2003 applying cointegration and error-correction modeling to a bivariate model that includes consumer price and monetary variables. The empirical results, based on quarterly data, confirm the existence of a long-run relationship between money supply and consumer prices. This paper argues further that the pass-through has increased in recent years. Short-term dynamics are shown to accentuate the long-run impact. Impulse response analysis shows that a shock in the money stock will have an increasing impact over two years and will then stabilize at a higher level.
Subject: Consumer price indexes, Consumer prices, Demand for money, Inflation, Monetary base, Money, Prices
Keywords: cointegration, consumer price index market basket, Consumer price indexes, consumer price inflation, Consumer prices, Demand for money, error correction model, error-correction modeling, Guinea, inflation, inflation equation, inflation expectation, inflation inertia, inflation variable, Monetary base, money growth, money supply, money-inflation relationship, price level, Sub-Saharan Africa, vector error correction, WP
Pages:
20
Volume:
2004
DOI:
Issue:
223
Series:
Working Paper No. 2004/223
Stock No:
WPIEA2232004
ISBN:
9781451875324
ISSN:
1018-5941
