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Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects

Inflation variations has become an issue that impedes efficient resource allocation and inclusive growth in Egypt. High inflationary pressures negatively affect standards of living, poverty alleviation and finally markets’ efficiency. For the past decade, Research on the causes of inflation in emerg...

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Main Author: Abouelhassan, Yassmina Rashad Helmi
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description Inflation variations has become an issue that impedes efficient resource allocation and inclusive growth in Egypt. High inflationary pressures negatively affect standards of living, poverty alleviation and finally markets’ efficiency. For the past decade, Research on the causes of inflation in emerging markets has been closely linked to exchange rates pass-through (ERPT). This is due to its perceived impacts on import prices and terms of trade shocks, which lead to a pass-through effect to domestic inflation. This research aims to contribute to the literature by investigating ERPT in Egypt with a nonlinear Autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL). Recent research on ERPT has shown that using NARDL has proven the existence of asymmetric effects of EPRT. The study uses quarterly time series data from 2006Q1-2020Q4 to examine the relationship between exchange rate movements and Inflation. For the purpose of the model, the methodology examines exchange rate and energy price movements’ asymmetric effects on producer price inflation using a NARDL model. The findings revealed the following: (1) a weakly significant and symmetric ERPT in Egypt. (2) Inflation in Egypt is highly dependent on past values of itself or what the research calls “Built-in inflation”. (3) a strong significant and asymmetric pass-through effect of energy prices. The implications of the findings put forth a need to move towards a fully-fledged inflation targeting regime with crucial complementary policies.
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spelling oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-2973 Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects Abouelhassan, Yassmina Rashad Helmi Inflation variations has become an issue that impedes efficient resource allocation and inclusive growth in Egypt. High inflationary pressures negatively affect standards of living, poverty alleviation and finally markets’ efficiency. For the past decade, Research on the causes of inflation in emerging markets has been closely linked to exchange rates pass-through (ERPT). This is due to its perceived impacts on import prices and terms of trade shocks, which lead to a pass-through effect to domestic inflation. This research aims to contribute to the literature by investigating ERPT in Egypt with a nonlinear Autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL). Recent research on ERPT has shown that using NARDL has proven the existence of asymmetric effects of EPRT. The study uses quarterly time series data from 2006Q1-2020Q4 to examine the relationship between exchange rate movements and Inflation. For the purpose of the model, the methodology examines exchange rate and energy price movements’ asymmetric effects on producer price inflation using a NARDL model. The findings revealed the following: (1) a weakly significant and symmetric ERPT in Egypt. (2) Inflation in Egypt is highly dependent on past values of itself or what the research calls “Built-in inflation”. (3) a strong significant and asymmetric pass-through effect of energy prices. The implications of the findings put forth a need to move towards a fully-fledged inflation targeting regime with crucial complementary policies. 2022-06-21T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1945 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2973/viewcontent/Yassmina_Rashad_Abouelhassan_Thesis.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Pass-through Exchange rate pass-through Inflation Autoregressive distributed lag model Nonlinear Autoregressive distributed lag model Asymmetric effects. Macroeconomics
spellingShingle Pass-through
Exchange rate pass-through
Inflation
Autoregressive distributed lag model
Nonlinear Autoregressive distributed lag model
Asymmetric effects.
Macroeconomics
Abouelhassan, Yassmina Rashad Helmi
Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects
title Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects
title_full Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects
title_fullStr Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects
title_full_unstemmed Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects
title_short Inflation Variations in Egypt: An Asymmetrical Analysis of Pass-Through Effects
title_sort inflation variations in egypt an asymmetrical analysis of pass through effects
topic Pass-through
Exchange rate pass-through
Inflation
Autoregressive distributed lag model
Nonlinear Autoregressive distributed lag model
Asymmetric effects.
Macroeconomics
url https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1945
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2973/viewcontent/Yassmina_Rashad_Abouelhassan_Thesis.pdf
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