Inflation dynamics and the parallel market for foreign exchange
分析官方汇率与平行市场汇率统一对稳态通胀的影响,指出在官方贬值减少货币创造的条件下,Pinto(1990)的结论可能被逆转,并以1980年代乌干达为例给出判断规则。
Pinto (1990) in World Bank Economic Review 3, 321–338, showed that unification of official and ‘parallel’ market exchange rates may lead to an increase in steady-state inflation, because of the fiscal impact of real official exchange rate changes. This paper shows how this, and other comparative static and stability results in Pinto (1990), are reversed under the assumption that official exchange rate devaluation reduces money creation in the economy. It is argued that this was the case for Uganda in the 1980s, and we give a simple rule of thumb for estimating when unification will increase or decrease steady-state inflation.