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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452578803321

Autore

Razafimahefa Ivohasina F

Titolo

Exchange rate pass-through in Sub-Saharan African economies and its determinants [[electronic resource] /] / Ivohasina F. Razafimahefa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, 2012

ISBN

1-4755-8250-1

1-4755-3002-1

1-283-86662-5

1-4755-2674-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/141

Soggetti

Foreign exchange rates - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Economic policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Literature Review; III. Analysis; A. Stylized Facts; B. Zero vs. Complete Pass-Through; C. Estimates of Pass-Through Elasticities; D. Determinants of Pass-Through Elasticities; E. Shift in Pass-Through Elasticities; IV. Conclusions; Tables; 1. Panel Unit Root Test; 2. Panel Cointegration Test; 3. Zero vs. Complete Pass-Through Tests (Panel AR-EC); 4. Appreciation vs. Depreciation Pass-Through; 5. Dynamic Pass-Through Elasticities; 6. Pass-Through Elasticities in Fixed vs. Flexible Regimes; 7. Pass-Through Shift in 1997; Figures

1. NEER Developments in SSA (Quarterly)2. NEER Percentage Changes in SSA (Quarterly); 3. CPI Percentage Changes in SSA (Quarterly); 4. NEER and CPI in Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes; 5. NEER and CPI in Flexible Exchange Rate Regimes; 6. Income and Pass-Through Elasticities; 7. Inflation Environment and Pass-Through Elasticities; 8. Broad Money and Pass-Through Elasticities; 9. Fiscal Balance and Pass-Through Elasticities; 10. CPIA Macro and Pass-Through Elasticities; 11. Macroeconomic and Political Developments in SSA; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper analyzes the exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices



and its determinants in sub-Saharan African countries. It finds that the pass-through is incomplete. The pass-through is larger following a depreciation than after an appreciation of the local currency. The average elasticity is estimated at about 0.4. It is lower in countries with more flexible exchange rate regimes and in countries with a higher income. A low inflation environment, a prudent monetary policy, and a sustainable fiscal policy are associated with a lower pass-through. The degree of pass-through has declined in

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136353803321

Autore

Cole Lucinda

Titolo

Imperfect creatures : vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 / / Lucinda Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-472-90063-3

0-472-12155-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Classificazione

NAT001000LIT019000

Disciplina

614.43

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Animals in literature

Insects in literature

Literature and science - History - 17th century

Literature and science - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain -- Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion --  Swarming Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and Cowley --  "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures, Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human -- Libertine Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell, Rochester, and Gay -- What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island -- Afterword: We Have Never Been



Perfect.

Sommario/riassunto

"Lucinda Cole's Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of "vermin" as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole's argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts--William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Abraham Cowley's The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso, Rochester's "A Ramble in St. James's Park," and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year--alongside other nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival materials from the period, including treatises on animal trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative neuroanatomy. As Cole illustrates, human health and demographic problems--notably those of feeding populations periodically stricken by hunger, disease, and famine--were tied to larger questions about food supplies, property laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives that underwrote humankind's claim to dominion over the animal kingdom. In this context, Cole's study indicates, so-called "vermin" occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease--even reason and madness. This verminous discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out humankind's relationship to an unpredictable, a-rational natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking about not merely animals but anything that threatened the health of the body politic--humans, animals, and even thoughts. "--