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| Other authors / contributors: | International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Department, issuing body.
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| ISBN: | 1451890885
9781451890884
1281089680
9781281089687
1462367259
9781462367252
1451984472
9781451984477
9786613775047
6613775045
9781451842722
1451842724
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| ISSN: | 2227-8885
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| Notes: | Restrictions unspecified
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| Summary: | The Monetary Authority of Singapore, instead of relying on short-term interest rates or monetary aggregates as its monetary policy instrument, conducts policy by managing the trade-weighted exchange rate index (TWI). This paper investigates how this operating procedure actually works. For empirical purposes, it assumes the authorities follow a reaction function that aims the TWI at stabilizing expected inflation and maintaining output at potential. A partial adjustment mechanism is included to dampen the actual changes in the exchange rate. The estimates confirm that the major focus of monetary policy in Singapore is controlling inflation. The estimated changes in the TWI track the actual change relatively well, and the estimated parameters are as expected. Accordingly, they support the hypothesis that monetary policy in Singapore can be described by a forward-looking policy rule that reacts to both inflation and output volatility. The results suggest that Singapore's monetary policy has mainly reacted to large deviations in the target variables, which is consistent with monetary policy's medium-term orientation.
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| Other form: | Print version: Parrado, Eric. Singapore's unique monetary policy. Washington D.C. : International Monetary Fund, ©2004
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| Standard no.: | 10.5089/9781451890884.001
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