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Professor Hiroaki Miyamoto (Supervisor)
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This thesis studies the effect of monetary policies on price levels in Uzbekistan for
the period between 1995 and 2009. We employ three alternative time series analyses
and examine the relationship between output, price levels, exchange rates, and
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rate is explained not only by money supply but also by other monetary factors, such
as the exchange rate, interest rate, foreign price levels or output growth. This study
shows that for the realization of an effective anti-inflationary policy, other monetary
factors also need to be watched.
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Key words: Monetary Policy, Price levels, Inflation Rate, Vector autoregression.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION__________________________________
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LIST OF FIGURES
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Money Supply and Price Level Dynamics of Uzbekistan in 1995-20098
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LIST OF TABLES
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ACRONYMS
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PPP
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UZS
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GDP
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First, and above all else, I would like to thank to our Almighty for His blessing,
guidance and love. It is through His mercy that I have been able to succeed this far.
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Taking this opportunity I would like to thank several people who have a
significant impact in my life at IUJ and writing this thesis. First and foremost, I am
Professor Lin Ching-Yang for their invaluable comments and suggestions which
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Other than that, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Japan Grant
Aid for Human Resource Development (JDS) program, for affording me the
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To all Yamato-machi people for their hospitality that made my stay in Japan more
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enjoyable.
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Mahammadjon Ahmadjonovich Salimov (May Allah have mercy on him) and other
members of my family for their spiritually support and very useful advices for life.
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
In developing countries and countries in transition to market economy, the
primary goal is to achieve the stability of an economy by maintaining low inflation
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rate and stabilizing prices. In Uzbekistan, the unmanageable growth of the price
level is one of the most important issues on the way of economic reforms.
Uzbekistan experienced hyperinflation in 1994 and the growth rate of price levels
exceeded 1200 percent per year. 1 High level of inflation has a negative impact on
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and trade. In order to stabilize the price level, it is well known that monetary
policies play an important role. 2 However, the effect of monetary policies on price
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This inflation rate was one of the highest among Central Asian countries and was
the highest value after 1991 in Uzbekistan.
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Monetary policy represents a set of interconnected measures undertaken by the
Central Bank with aim to regulate business activity through planned influence on
loan and money circulation. Keeping reasonable levels of price stability has been a
main target of monetary policies in Uzbekistans economy.
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Before the transition period to market economy, Uzbekistan was in planned
economic system. Hence, there was no reason to consider stabilizing the price levels.
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Empirical results do not show a clear relationship between money supply and
the price level. This implies that the central bank of Uzbekistan has not succeeded
controlling price level by controlling money supply. However, if we take a look to
the data, we can see the same upward trends for both money supply growth and
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price level 4. Therefore, we analyzed the effect of exchange and interest rates to the
inflation as well. In contrast, there are short term and long term effects of foreign
price level, interest rate and exchange rate movements to the inflation rate.
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The remainders of this paper are organized as follows. Second chapter explains
the overview of monetary policy, growth and price levels of the country in general.
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of the analysis is clarified in the fourth chapter and data analysis, model
specification and methodology are explained. In the fifth chapter, empirical results
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and discussions are explained. Finally, chapter six presents policy implications and
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inflation.
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policy immediately affect the financial condition of the country. This is especially
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tried to pay more attention to the Central Banks instruments of monetary control
and their effectiveness in the short-run and long term.
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In the initial stages of the transition to market economy, like many other CIS
countries Uzbekistan also faced macroeconomic issues such as: recession, rising
unemployment and inflation rates, shortage of financial resources, the budget deficit.
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identified the tactical and strategic objectives of monetary policy. The strategic goal
of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) was to employ standard instruments of
monetary regulation which were characteristic of developed countries. However, in
many developing countries in the early transition stage they prevented the use of
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Taking into account these realities, CBU decided making a radical change in
monetary policy, such as, rebuilt credit and interest rate policy in order to reduce the
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monetary channels of the inflation. To achieve this goal, the CBU applied the tools
of refinancing which is interest rate policy. In 1994-1995s CBUs refinancing rate
increased as follows. Since October 1994 150%, from January 1995 225%, from
1st of March 1995 300% then from second half of 1995 it decreased to 84% and
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1997
30.0
1998
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2000
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2001
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2002
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18.0
2005
16.0
2006
14.0
2007
14.0
2008
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2009
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Between the short terms, applying costly money policy by CBU led to reduce
bank lending this is consequently led to decrease in investment activity that in turn
resulted a decline in production. On the other hand, there were long-term goals of
this monetary policy of CBU such as reducing inflation and strengthening the
national currency.
From the second half of the 1994, interest rate policy of CBU has changed.
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indicators at specified rate and liquidity of the banking system and secondly,
achieving and maintaining the macroeconomic stability.
Benchmarking the reserve requirements for banks was a process in transition to
market relations and one of the main economic instruments for implementing
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monetary policy. Interest rate and rate for reserve requirements rose in 1994.
requirement tools for monetary development in order to prepare for the introduction
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of its own national currency. Therefore, CBU increased the rate of reserve
requirements in order to reduce the money supply. The funds attracted for up to 3
years term the rate is set at 30%, and for a period exceeding 3 years -10%. With the
improvement of market relations and the use of government securities, the interest
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years of 1996, 2000, 2005, and 2009 were 2.2, 1.5, 1.3, and 1.4 respectively. The
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level of annual CPI reached more than 12 times between the periods 1992-1996,
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however, in 2002 this rate reduced to 20%. Consequently this process positively
affected the dynamics of interest rates in the money market and exchange rate in the
domestic market.
Next steps of CBU were associated with exchange policy of foreign currency.
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effectively realized. Gross Domestic Product improved by 8.1%, industrial output by 9.0%, agriculture by 5.7%, investment by 9.1%, trade by 16.6% and
services by 12.9%. According to the Table 2 below, annual GDP growth rate of
the country was higher than growth rates in Russia (6.0%), Moldova (7.3%),
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position was fourth in terms of growth of GDP among FSU countries after
Azerbaijan (11.6%), Turkmenistan (10.0%) and Belarus (9.2%) and 9th in the world.
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Macau
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Azerbaijan
Qatar
Anguilla
Turkmenistan
China
Belarus
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Russia
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Ukraine
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The CBU conducted intensive monetary policy in last recent years and one of
the main goals of the CBU was to strengthen the purchasing power of the currency.
To maintain the sustainable levels of national currency, the CBU implemented a
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tight monetary policy and decreased the impact of monetary factors on price levels.
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In this part our objectives are analyzing the relationship between inflation and
GDP growth and money supply growth in periods from 1995 to 2009. When
monetary or fiscal policy are not stable, the economy of the country suffers from
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multiple exchange rates which overvalue the currency, a distorted interest rate
regime, unreliable statistics and
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determine a realistic GDP figure. According to quantity theory of money, the money
supply and inflation have a positive relationship in terms of increase in the money
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Money Supply
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the relationship between money supply and price levels is positive. Money supply
gradually increased year by year, simultaneously, inflation rate has a upward trend
in this period of time.
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However, if we take a close look to Figure 2, we can see the negative link
between price levels and money growth as well. Maybe this is because of there are
some other factors affecting the inflation rate more than money supply. Under
normal conditions, relationship between money supply and inflation is not
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Uzbekistan is the time it takes a change in money stock to start affecting on inflation.
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Figure 3 demonstrates the dynamics of inflation and GDP growth which are
moving inversely between these years. The possible reason maybe is the impact of
the current inflation happens after some time later.
Thus, one of the objectives of this study is to determine these time lags in order
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comparison with 2008. The depreciation of the exchange rate indicates positive
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expectations of market participants. It also indicates that, market demand for foreign
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In this section, we introduce the other theoretical research papers and analytical
studies on this topic. In order to understand consequences and sources of inflation
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inflation. Even though some studies contradict each other, there is vast literature on
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One of the best known economics scholars Friedman Milton said, The only
cure for inflation is to reduce the rate at which total spending is growing. 5 In his
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work he emphasized that monetary measures have more considerable and reliable
effects than fiscal policies on total spending. Actually, he offered the finding, I
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dont think monetary policy has to be backed up by fiscal policy at all. I think
monetary policy can curb inflation. 6 Friedmans logic behind this was simple: A
budget deficit is inflationary if, and only if, it is financed in considerable part by
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printing money 7 explicitly, only if fiscal policy decisions are made by the
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monetary actions for total spending, and aggregate spending for inflation as:
Monetary policy is an appropriate and proper tool when directed at achieving price
The only cure for inflation...: Friedman Newsweek column, November 12, 1979.
See Friedman interview in New Zealand Herald (1981) for the detail.
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stability or a desired rate of price change. 8 Nowadays this theory motivates the
monetary policy framework of main economies.
Perhaps, Phillip Cagan is famous for a work which tried to identify the
fundamental relationships between output, money and prices. In his work 9 he tried
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inflation. There have been a huge number of researches from best known scholars
provided negative relationship. Particularly, Barro (1997) found an empirical result
that inflation behavior has a negative relationship with economic growth. The paper
written by Barro covered more than 100 countries between the periods 1960-1990
and the results show that increase inflation by 10 percent leads to decrease in growth
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See Friedman in Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Review, (1977).
See Cagan, Phillip (1956) for the detail.
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of GDP per capita by 0.2 0.3 percent per year. Moreover, he suggested that
although the effect is very small, the long-run influences on living standards are
significant. For example, monetary action that increases long-run inflation rate by 10
percent per year lowers the Real GDP levels 4-7 percent after 30 years which
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Lately, Bruno and Easterly (1998) have provided some clarification and
concluded that the negative relationship between growth and inflation is caused by
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high inflation crises, for the periods when there is inflation rate is above 40 % per
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growth were ambiguous like theory. Studies of International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Papers about that period didnt identify any relationship between inflation and
economic growth. 10 Although inflation rate in Latin America reached more than 10
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percent in 1950s and 1960s their growth was good. For example, Brazil is often
referred to as high inflation and high growth counterexample to outdated view that
inflation is bad for the economy11. Wallichs (1969) findings are also interesting. He
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Like other literatures of that time he also had expected positive relationship between
economic growth and inflation. However, instead of this he got strong negative
relationship. 12
After 1980s countries experienced new severe inflation processes, which were
empirically studied after the 1980s. In this period of time literature focused on the
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short term output costs in hyperinflation process. There were very low or any output
costs for stabilization of high inflation, while cost of the stabilization of low
inflations was quite high. Thus presumption of the studies in the 1980s was a
positive relationship between inflation and economic growth in the short-run.
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According to the new theorists, high level of prices might affect the economic
growth negatively. In 1993 Dornbusch and Fischer reported his findings that
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and sources of moderate price level experience. In their study they provided 8 case
studies for different countries and according to their conclusion, by combining
incomes policy, deflationary fiscal policy and exchange rate actions and by
exploiting of positive supply shocks to make the inflation rate down countries could
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fluctuations and found that before and during the peak of the high inflation period
GDP per capita growth declined. Per capita growth recovered immediately after the
first year of peak of the inflation then started improving to high levels thereafter.
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A paper written by Mark N. Harris, Max Gillman and Lszl Mtys in 2001 is
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countries. For APEC member countries results were similar by using instrumental
variables.
In 1985 Kormendi and Meguire examined relationship between price levels and
economic growth by using cross-sectional data for forty seven countries from 1950
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The thought that money supply growth leads to increase in price levels is one of
the oldest idea in economics. In 1752 David Hume examined money and price levels
and found that increases in prices correlated with increases in money supply.
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have found close relationship between changes in money supply and inflation. For
instance, Lucas in 1980 presented 2 implications of money supply theory: that
change of supply of money results the same change in the rate of price level and also
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same change in nominal interest rates by using quarterly time-series data of U.S. for
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the period from 1953 to 1977. Inspire of considerable evidences and a long history,
relationship between money supply and price levels remain disputed. Maybe this is
because of empirical relationship between price levels and money supply growth
holds for long time periods that empirical suggestions are not informative for
policymakers, who are concerning about the inflation of near future. Some of the
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empirical studies were based on more than thirty years observation data. However,
Dwyer found short-term linkage between inflation and money supply growth rates 15.
Other IMF working paper prepared by Wojciech Malizsewski (2003) explains
the behavior of inflation in Georgian the post stabilization period, after introduction
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of the national currency Lari in October 1995. A long-term equation linking prices
to money and exchange rates, as well as a short-run, dynamic equation for inflation
are estimated. This paper attempts to throw some light on the behavior of inflation
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Georgia and to construct a tool for formulation and evaluation of the monetary
policy. It tests for the presence of economically interpretable long-run relationships
The results of the econometric model show that the long-run inflation equation
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expresses prices as a function of money, exchange rate and real income. Short-run
dynamics of inflation are strongly affected by changes of money supply, exchange
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rate and oil prices. As one of the FSU republics, the Georgian macroeconomic
situation is similar to Uzbekistans economy, as both countries were affected by
external shocks and their economies have been highly dollarized and parallel market
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exchange rates have played a significant role at the beginning of independence and
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one is based on a monetary approach and the other uses output gap and they then
assess their ability to forecast recent inflation developments. Second, they use a
series of vector autoregressions (VARs) for forecasting future inflation. The authors
argue that wholesale price index (WPI) has broader coverage and is published more
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frequently than consumer price index (CPI) in India. So that they preferred to
analyze WPI even though CPI is more relevant in measuring inflation. So the
empirical work focuses on forecasting both the overall WPI and manufacturing price
index. The paper applied co-integration techniques to model the long-run behavior
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of prices and then derives dynamic equation for inflation based on these results. The
paper found some important results determining inflation in India and that prices of
primary goods are largely derived from climatic conditions and by changes in
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administered prices. Monetary aggregates also appear to contain the best information
about future inflation. Consecutively, the authors give some policy implications and
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This paper studies the effect of monetary policies on price levels in Uzbekistan.
For this purpose, we employ three alternative econometric models: the linear
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regression model, the vector autoregression (VAR) model, and vector error
correction (VECM) model. Based on the results of primary tests, the cointegration
test and the unit root test, we choose the appropriate method.
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equations are not cointegrated then we will use either VAR or VECM for further
analysis. Choosing VAR or VECM depends on the Unit Root Test. If the variables
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has unit root in the level then we will use VECM otherwise, if there is no unit root at
least in one variable then we will use VAR. Since we use time series data, we should
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test the stationary of the each variable in the model. It is important to make sure that
the variables used for the study are stationary or non-stationary, because, when the
series become non-stationary then we can obtain spurious estimation results. These
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results. The null hypothesis of the stationary test is that the variables have unit root
problem which means non-stationary.
Next step is to check if the variables are cointegrated or not. In 1987, Engle and
Granger introduced the concept of cointegration. The cointegration test examines
whether series have a long term equilibrium or long-run relationship. Testing for
cointegration combines the problems of unit root tests and tests with parameters
unidentified under the null hypothesis. In a series of examples it is found that
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consumption and income are co-integrated, wages and prices are not, short and long
interest rates are, and nominal GNP is co-integrated with M2, but not M1, M3, or
aggregate liquid assets 16 . In our study we also test the long-run equilibrium
relationship between non-stationary variables by using Jahansen Cointegration Test.
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If in the long-run, variables are cointegrated each other then OLS method is efficient
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economic series such as output, money supply, exchange rate, interest rate, foreign
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average of the price of tradable goods pT and non-tradable goods pN. Thus, the
overall price level is represented by the standard log-linear form:
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purchasing power parity (PPP), the hypothesis that the long-run exchange rate et is
determined by domestic prices relative to foreign prices pft 17. In logarithm form this
implies:
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It is assumed that the price of non-tradable goods depends on both supply and
demand factors. Demand for non-tradable is assumed to be related to overall demand
in the economy which for simplicity, can be represented by the money market
equilibrium 18.
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where ms and md represent the supply and the demand for real money balances,
respectively.
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The demand for real money balances is specified by the standard Cagan money
demand function 19. Thus, we have
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Equation (5) implies that the overall price level is function of output, money
supply, exchange rate, foreign price, and interest rate. Thus, we have
(6)
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macroeconomic variables affect inflation rate, and also how inflation rate influences
them. In order to examine, we use the Granger-
The basic idea of the Granger-Causality Test is that past values of variables can
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Vector in VAR indicates the more than one variable will be predicted. Thus, a
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set of regressions is run simultaneously and this indicates that variables will be
regressed on their own past values. Our model also includes macroeconomic
variables: inflation rate, output, money supply, exchange rate, foreign price and
interest rate. As mentioned previous parts, we are interested in whether these
variables have relationship with inflation by lag length and, in their turn, whether
money supply, output, exchange rate, interest rate and foreign price are influenced
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by lagged values of the variable inflation. In order to check this, we will apply the
Granger-Causality Test.
Following the Sims we can also take the first difference when variables are
non-stationary. On the other hand, in their study (1990) Sims, Stock and Watson
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mentioned that the VAR with non-stationary variables incur some loss in estimators
efficiency although it may have in term of estimators consistency. Since the major
target is to examine the effectiveness of the monetary policy in monitoring the high
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money supply, exchange rate, interest rate and foreign price level to employ a VAR.
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The main outcomes of the VAR estimation are vector autoregression estimates
and impulse-response functions. To analyze the interaction between variables, this
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study mostly relies on the impulse-response function (IRF). The IRF trace the effects
of a shock to one endogenous variable on to the other variables in the VAR model.
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time series in estimating the equation. This issue was first proposed by Granger in
1981 and later by Engle and Granger in 1987. According to Engle and Granger,
researchers can develop the cointegration relationship between variables to address
the non-stationary problem of variables. Their argument is that, if two or more
variables are cointegrated, that is, if there is a long relationship between them, then
the short run dynamics of the variables can be described by an Error Correction
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Model 20 . This has become the standard empirical approach to address the nonstationary issue of time series data since the seminar paper by Engle and Granger in
1987.
In this research we propose three alternative econometric methods to analyze
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the relationship between inflation and other economic variables. Depending on the
results of unit root and cointegration tests, we will choose one of these methods. If
the variables are non-stationary and there is no cointegration between equations then
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we can take first difference of the variables and run OLS or use Vector
Autoregression model for further analysis. On the other hand, if the variables are
non-stationary and there is cointegration between variables then we use Vector Error
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analysis of all three alternative methods: OLS, VAR and VECM methods. For these
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methods I used price level (P), money supply (M), output (Y), exchange rate of UZS
to USD (ER), foreign price (Pf) which is USD CPI and interest rate (IR). All
variables are quarterly for the period from 1st quarter of 1995 to 4th quarter of 2009.
The data on most variables are taken from Central Bank of the Republic of
Uzbekistan. Other sources of the data are International Monetary Fund, Asian
Development Bank and State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
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The descriptive statistics of these variables are presented in Table 3.
Table 3: Descriptive Statistics
3201.56
1682.95
15757.10
34.20
3810.30
1.54
4.71
2167.87
899.53
11150.66
23.92
2804.41
1.61
4.61
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60.00
60.00
Observations
Interest
Rate
686.66
767.80
1511.40
26.10
536.46
0.00
1.34
126.25
124.55
151.53
105.28
14.13
0.23
1.82
3.92
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Minimum
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Skewness
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variables.
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data are stationary or not. Table 4 reports the results of the ADF tests for all the
Level
Price Level
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-9.41***
Exchange Rate
0.47
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-8.80***
Interest Rate
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-10.45***
Foreign Price
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-2.73
-6.97***
Money Supply
Growth
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Output
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According to the results of the stationary tests above, we can reject the null
hypothesis of all variables at the level. This implies that although for all variables we
cannot reject the hull of unit roots in the level, we can reject the null of unit roots in
the first difference except foreign price level. This implies that prices, output, money
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supply, exchange rate, interest rate except foreign price are stationary in first
difference.
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Eigenvalue
Trace
Statistic
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Number of
Cointegrated
Equations
**MacKinnonHaug-Michelis pvalues
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111.76
76.97
At most 2 *
0.47
66.17
54.08
At most 3
0.24
31.08
35.19
At most 4
0.15
15.85
20.26
At most 5
0.11
6.61
9.16
Note: * denotes rejection of the hypothesis at the 0.05 level
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the 0.05 level which means there are some cointegrated equations in the long-run
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relationship. This can lead us to spurious results in the simple regression. Many
researchers would neglect valuable information regarding the long-run relationship
between the non-stationary variables. Due to the Unit root test and Cointegration test,
the OLS and VECM estimates spurious because of the non-stationary issues.
Therefore, we conduct the VAR model as an alternative way in this paper.
Appendix 2 presents the results from OLS estimation of VAR(2). Since there
are five variables and two lags in our VAR, there are five equations to estimate.
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Each equation regress a dependent variable on each lag of the variables in the VAR.
Carrying out the Pairwise Granger causality test we test whether endogenous
variables can be treated as exogenous. If we examine the significant coefficients,
some interesting patterns emerge from the test:
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All variables output, interest rate, foreign price Granger cause but money supply
All variables money supply, exchange rate, and foreign price Granger cause
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output;
All variables inflation rate, output, exchange rate, interest rate except foreign
All variables output, money supply, foreign price and interest rate except
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The results demonstrate that past values of output, foreign price and interest
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rate can explain current inflation. On the other hand, the inflation rate is Granger
cause for exchange rate.
Furthermore, for analyzing how our variables affect each other over different
time horizons, we can precede dynamic analysis of our model by applying Impulse
Response Analysis. The Impulse-Response Function (IRF) shows us how a one-time
positive shock to one of the endogenous variables affects not only that variable, but
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also transmitted to all the other endogenous variables in the VAR through the lag
structure of the model.
Figure 4: Impulse Response Function Results
Response of LNPRL to LNM
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.00
.00
-.02
-.02
-.04
10
10
10
.04
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-.02
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-.04
10
10
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-.02
-.04
1
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As a result of the Granger-Causality Test we see that, some variables in our
model Granger affect the inflation rate some of them not. Hence, let us take a look to
the response of inflation rate to the other macroeconomic variables from the Figure 4
above. From the graph we can say that if we increase GDP growth for one time
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period, at time period 0, then in the first two quarters growth rate of the inflation
grows more quickly than otherwise. However, the response of growth of inflation
rate to money supply growth shows unclear effect which means when we increase
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the money supply one time, there is almost no effect to the growth of the inflation.
For the response of growth of inflation rate to growth of exchange rate and foreign
price we can say that if there is one time positive shock in foreign price level or
exchange rate then inflation level increases slightly over time. On the other hand,
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when there is one time shock in the interest rate consequently inflation rate goes
down and keeps its level in the long-run as well.
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10
10
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-.2
-.3
2
10
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-.3
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10
10
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According to the Figure 5 above, we can see almost similar trend over time
with Figure 1. In accumulated Impulse response functions the response of price
level to the output, exchange rate and foreign price levels have same directions
which means when output, exchange rate and foreign price levels increase, then the
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growth rate of inflation starts to increase slightly over time. This implies that
increase in price levels are linked with an increase in GDP growth, exchange rate
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regarding the response of inflation growth to money supply growth. Because from
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the graph we can see that, if money supply growth rises then this shock doesnt
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objective of the central bank of Uzbekistan is to maintain the stability of price level,
the central bank can implement other instruments of monetary policy, such as
interest rate policy or exchange rate policy as important devices to control and
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monitor the inflation rate. According to my findings, it is obvious that the reduction
in the exchange rate by CBU can reduce the high inflation rate.
There are some other policies which can also reduce the exchange rate level.
The most efficient policy in many countries is to increase the openness of the
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country, which means the country should increase its competitive export goods
which lead to decrease in exchange rate.
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The second effective policy instrument in controlling the money supply and
reducing the inflation is the adjustment of the interest rates. In these circumstances,
decrease in money supply and price level can sustain the economic growth of the
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republic of Uzbekistan.
Third, foreign price level and interest rate movements have both short-term and
long-term effects on the rate of price level. The effect of an increase in the foreign
price level could be off-set to some extend by controlling the exchange rate. This
strategy has become a more effective way of maintaining price stability in small
open economy such as Singapore 21.
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purpose, we use three alternative time series frameworks. To do this, we tested unit
root and cointegration test then depending on the results, we analyzed monetary and
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implemented the Granger Causality test and applied Impulse Response Analyses.
The present paper finds some interesting patterns after carrying out the pair
wise Granger Causality test to test whether endogenous variables can be treated as
exogenous. Our VAR model results demonstrate that lagged values of GDP growth,
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exchange rate, interest rate and foreign price can cause current price level.
Moreover, Granger Causality test shows that lagged values output, interest rate
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and foreign price can cause current price level. Alternatively, inflation rate can
affect the exchange rate.
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price levels, and outputs, we estimate VAR model and compute IRFs.
According to the graphs of Impulse-Response Function we can say that if
growth of the output, exchange rate and foreign price level increase in one period,
then price level grows gradually over the period. However, the response of inflation
growth to money supply growth demonstrates very small negative correlation and
5 % confidence interval shows neutral area. Moreover, if we increase interest rate in
time this can lead to decrease in price level.
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Thirdly, we can see the similar results from analyzes of the accumulated
responses of inflation rate to other variables. All variables except money supply and
interest rate have similar trend over time which means when output growth,
exchange rate and foreign price levels increase, then the growth rates of price levels
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start increasing gradually over time. However, we cannot say there is a relationship
between inflation growth and money supply growth by looking to the accumulated
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We conclude that, the current inflation rate is explained not only by money
supply but also by other monetary factors, such as the exchange rate, interest rate,
foreign price levels or output growth. This study demonstrates that for the realization
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watched. Their elimination will help curb the inflation rate and reduce minimum
losses in the economy. To completely manage price levels through controlling only
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which have arisen in the economy. We conclude that giving more consideration to
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both past and forecasted macroeconomic variables in the setting operation procedure
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As a result of tight monetary policy Uzbek economy experienced the lowest
level of inflation 3.7 percent annually in 2004 and amounted 7.1 percent for 2009.
Past recent years prices strongly affected by non-monetary factors such as dramatic
seasonal fluctuations, cost of monopoly, cost-push inflation and wage increases.
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Of course, this research cannot be regarded as the final word on this issue
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1: OLS Method Estimation Results
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R-squared
Adjusted R-squared
S.E. of regression
Sum squared resid
Log likelihood
F-statistic
Prob(F-statistic)
2.74
0.05
0.08
0.03
0.62
0.01
N
Prob.
0.0000
0.0001
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.1917
6.87
0.75
-2.17
-1.96
-2.09
1.11
L
0.99
0.99
0.08
0.33
71.06
1066.04
0.0000
t-Statistic
8.17
-4.12
7.72
13.77
-6.77
-1.32
22.37
-0.22
0.63
0.39
-4.23
-0.01
RN
A
C
Output Growth
Money Supply Growth
Exchange Rate
Foreign Price
Interest Rate
Std.
Error
Coefficient
SE
Variable
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Output
Growth (-1)
0.209252
-0.03634
-0.13998
-0.62404
-0.27011
[ 4.97991]
[-0.08664]
[ 0.77468]
0.084055
0.507556
-0.12565
-0.56015
[ 0.66898]
0.16964
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Money Supply
Growth (-1)
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Money Supply
Growth (-2)
Growth of
Exchange
Rate (-1)
Growth of
Exchange
Rate (-2)
Interest
Rate
Growth
-0.0065
1.691285
-0.42784
-0.05631
-3.50216
[-0.08494]
[-0.11542]
[ 0.48293]
SE
-0.13799
0.630647
-0.05325
-3.20795
-0.24246
-0.38403
-0.05054
-3.14358
[ 0.90611]
[-0.56913]
[ 1.64216]
[-1.05358]
[-1.02048]
0.037159
0.052825
0.012227
-0.00886
-3.76155
-0.13731
-0.05943
-0.09414
-0.01239
-0.77059
[ 5.50783]
[ 0.27062]
[ 0.88881]
[ 0.12989]
[-0.71537]
[-4.88138]
-0.03413
-0.83624
-0.10373
-0.00532
0.030432
0.266476
-0.03069
-0.1368
-0.05921
-0.09379
-0.01234
-0.76775
[-1.11221]
[-6.11274]
[-1.75168]
[-0.05672]
[ 2.46533]
[ 0.34709]
-0.06931
0.757913
0.589047
-0.05128
0.026576
5.067075
-0.08541
-0.38076
-0.16481
-0.26105
-0.03436
-2.13687
[-0.81153]
[ 1.99052]
[ 3.57406]
[-0.19644]
[ 0.77351]
[ 2.37126]
0.029522
0.245704
0.232433
-0.25433
-0.00428
-1.18301
-0.08004
-0.35682
-0.15445
-0.24464
-0.0322
-2.00253
[ 0.36884]
[ 0.68858]
[ 1.50490]
[-1.03963]
[-0.13304]
[-0.59076]
0.088478
0.151494
-0.01967
0.926156
0.016201
-0.78
-0.04956
-0.22095
-0.09564
-0.15148
-0.01994
-1.23997
[ 1.78525]
[ 0.68566]
[-0.20571]
[ 6.11400]
[ 0.81264]
[-0.62905]
-0.07446
0.210248
0.020542
-0.13951
-0.00208
2.523594
-0.05046
-0.22498
-0.09738
-0.15424
-0.0203
-1.26259
[-1.47551]
[ 0.93453]
[ 0.21094]
[-0.90445]
[-0.10266]
[ 1.99874]
1.037631
5.664705
2.404136
2.14193
0.315917
-20.7399
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-0.0308
Foreign
Price
-0.05407
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Output
Growth (-2)
Growth of
Exchange
Rate
0.697078
Inflation
Growth (-2)
Money
Supply
Growth
Inflation
Growth (-1)
Output
Growth
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Inflation
Growth
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-0.44464
[ 2.33364]
-1.43385
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-2.54382
0.169794
0.446151
0.280437
2.479659
-2.22387
-0.96259
-1.52468
-0.20066
-12.4805
[-1.14387]
[ 0.17639]
[ 0.29262]
[ 1.39754]
[ 0.19868]
-0.01266
0.016083
-0.00788
-0.02969
-0.00031
0.473986
-0.02842
-0.0123
-0.01949
[ 0.56585]
[-0.64073]
[-1.52366]
-0.00796
0.020464
0.012199
0.010726
-0.00621
-0.02767
-0.01198
[-1.28257]
[ 0.73964]
[ 1.01866]
2.679329
-14.1248
-11.264
-0.00256
-0.15951
[-0.11905]
[ 2.97160]
-0.00638
[-1.98496]
-0.00105
0.092622
-0.01897
-0.0025
-0.15527
[ 0.56546]
[-0.42141]
[ 0.59653]
1.982641
87.52793
-13.2629
-2.14138
-9.54656
-4.13219
-6.5451
-0.86141
-53.576
[ 1.25121]
[-1.47957]
[-2.72591]
[-2.02639]
[ 2.30163]
[ 1.63371]
1.00
0.99
1.00
1.00
0.99
0.62
0.99
1.00
1.00
0.99
0.51
0.78
0.15
0.37
0.01
24.57
1.00
0.04
0.03
0.13
0.06
0.09
0.01
0.74
2503.26
590.24
3331.68
977.54
392.06
6.01
129.35
42.66
91.23
64.55
182.17
-57.39
-4.01
-1.02
-2.70
-1.78
-5.83
2.43
-3.55
-0.56
-2.24
-1.32
-5.37
2.89
6.93
7.28
6.81
6.00
4.84
0.52
0.68
1.47
1.51
1.30
0.11
1.06
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-0.49884
[-2.87439]
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R-squared
Adj. R-squared
Sum sq. resids
S.E. equation
F-statistic
Log likelihood
Akaike AIC
Schwarz SC
Mean
dependent
S.D. dependent
-11.1246
[-1.86432]
SE
-0.17886
[ 1.76624]
Interest Rate
Growth (-2)
-1.35904
[ 1.57606]
Interest Rate
Growth (-1)
-0.85802
[ 2.80197]
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-1.98227
[ 2.85769]
8.17
1.78
491.06
-14.24
-11.47
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