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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788229703321

Autore

Gupta Souvik

Titolo

Measures of Underlying Inflation in Sri Lanka / / Souvik Gupta, Magnus Saxegaard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-3760-0

1-4527-2988-3

9786612843808

1-282-84380-X

1-4518-7314-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (23 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SaxegaardMagnus

Soggetti

Inflation (Finance) - Sri Lanka

Monetary policy - Sri Lanka

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Econometric Modeling: General

Price Level

Deflation

Monetary Policy

Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis

Prices

Energy: Demand and Supply

Economic growth

Consumer price indexes

Cyclical indicators

Food prices

Fuel prices

Price indexes

Business cycles

Sri Lanka

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"August 2009."

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; Figures; 1. Consumer Price Inflation; 2. Capacity Utilization; 3. Inflationary Pressure; II. Background; 4. Reserve Money and Credit; III. Alternative Measures of Core Inflation; A. Exclusion-based Methods; 5. Exclusion Based Measure of Core Inflation; B. Limited Influence Estimators; C. Reweighing the CPI; 6. Trimmed Mean Inflation; 7. Root Mean Squared Errors of Alternative Trimmed Mean Measures; D. Model-based Methods; 8. Persistence Weighted Measure of Core Inflation; IV. Conditions to Evaluate Measures of Core Inflation; 9. Quah-Vahey Measure of Core Inflation

A. Marques et al. (2004) TestsV. Results; Tables; 1. Evaluation of Measures of Core Inflation; VI. Concluding Remarks; References

Sommario/riassunto

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.