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| | | Title | FISCAL POLICY CONSISTENCY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MACROECONOMIC AGGREGATES: THE CASE OF UGANDA | | Author | HISALI, ERIA | | Subject | Economic Development | | Date of Publication | 2010 | | Publisher | Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) | | Number of Pages | 38 pages | | Language | English | | Geographical Coverage | Uganda | | Keywords | Fiscal Stance, Macroeconomic Aggregates, Structural Vector Autogression, Budget Accounting Approach | | Abstract | The relationship between growth in monetary aggregates and price changes continues to be a subject of considerable debate both in the academic and policy circles. Whereas the more ‘conservative’ policy makers hold that growth in monetary aggregates bear proportionately on prices, ‘liberals’ on the other hand suggest a fairly weak relationship and instead mainly attribute sustained price changes to other innovations (including structural weaknesses and poor productive capacity). This study employed vector autoregression techniques (and its variants) to examine both short term as well as long term interactions between selected macroeconomic aggregates with particular focus on the relationship between money growth and price changes. Results from both the reduced form vector autoregression specification and the contemporaneous structural vector autoregression show a weak causation from growth in monetary aggregates to price changes, but the link between changes in monetary aggregates and prices becomes stronger in the long run. The results also point to a strong relationship between price changes on the one hand and exchange rate depreciation, and past inflation outcomes on the other. The results imply a potential for increased revenue from monetisation, at least up to some feasible as well as the need to focus on other possible sources of price variations. | | Copyright Holder | Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) | | Copyright URL | http://www.eprc.or.ug | | Filesize | 698643 MB | | File Format | PDF | | [ View / download original document ] |
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