Measures of Underlying Inflation in Sri Lanka
August 1, 2009
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Summary
During the first half of 2008, Sri Lanka witnessed significantly higher inflation than most other emerging Asian countries. Inflation has since declined amid declining world commodity prices and tight monetary policy. Given the sensitivity to global commodity prices, a core inflation measure could be useful for monetary policy. The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of Sri Lanka's existing official measure of core inflation against alternative measures. Our findings suggest that the existing measure does contain information about the future path of headline information, but may be inadequate as a communication tool for the Central Bank.
Subject: Consumer price indexes, Cyclical indicators, Economic growth, Food prices, Fuel prices, Inflation, Prices
Keywords: Consumer price indexes, core inflation, core inflation benefit, core inflation granger, core inflation measure, core inflation rate, Cyclical indicators, Food prices, Fuel prices, headline inflation, Inflation, measure of core inflation, Monetary Policy, Sri Lanka, world commodity price shock, WP
Pages:
22
Volume:
2009
DOI:
Issue:
167
Series:
Working Paper No. 2009/167
Stock No:
WPIEA2009167
ISBN:
9781451873146
ISSN:
1018-5941
