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Monetary Policy

Managing Disinflation under Uncertainty

In this paper we analyze disinflation policy when a central bank ha...

Mewael F. Tesfaselassie, Eric Schaling

Working Paper

The Sensitivity of South African Inflation Expectations to Surprises

The maintenance of price stability is widely recognised as the prim...

Monique Reid

Working Paper

Isolating a Measure of Inflation Expectations for the South African Financial Market Us...

The inflation expectations channel of the transmission mechanism ha...

Monique Reid

Working Paper

Inflation Targeting: a Framework for Communication

More than a monetary policy strategy, we interpret inflation target...

Nicola Viegi, Maria Demertzis

Working Paper

Measuring the welfare cost of inflation in South Africa

In this paper, we estimate the long-run equilibrium relationship be...

Josine Uwilingiye, Rangan Gupta

Working Paper

Learning About the Term Structure and Optimal Rules for Inflation Targeting

In this paper we incorporate the term structure of interest rates i...

Sylvester Eijffinger, Mewael F. Tesfaselassie, Eric Schaling

Working Paper

Reconsidering the business cycle and stabilisation policies in South Africa

This paper applies an alternative dating algorithm – suggeste...

Stan Du Plessis

Working Paper

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