Sources of Inflation in Developing Countries

This paper develops stylized facts about the inflation process in developing countries, focusing particularly on the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the sources of inflation. Using annual data from 1964 to 1998 for 53 developing countries, we find that money growth and exchange rate changes-factors typically related to fiscal influences-are far more important in countries with floating exchange rate regimes than in those with fixed exchange rates. Instead, inertial factors dominate the inflation process in developing countries with fixed exchange rate regimes.
Publication date: December 2001
ISBN: 9781451860061
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Inflation , Inflation , Money and Monetary Policy , Money and Monetary Policy , exchange rate , money growth , exchange rates

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