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Inflation in Ethiopia

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  • Pablo Andrés Neumeyer
  • Martín González-Rozada
  • Can Soylu

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This paper documents that monetary financing of unfunded fiscal deficits drives inflation in Ethiopia, a country with moderate but persistent inflation, which averaged 14% for the period 2002-2021. We make the case for the fiscal-monetary origin of inflation in two steps. First, we estimate a long-run money demand function for the monetary aggregate M1, which supports the quantity theory of money. Second, we show that over 2002-2021, 98% of the increase in M1 is explained by the growth of the monetary base, which, in turn, is explained by the growth of central bank transfers to the treasury and state-owned enterprises. These transfers account for 91% of the growth of M1 over the period 2002-2021.

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  • Pablo Andrés Neumeyer & Martín González-Rozada & Can Soylu, 2024. "Inflation in Ethiopia," Department of Economics Working Papers 2025_05, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
  • Handle: RePEc:udt:wpecon:2025_05
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    Keywords

    Inflation; Money Demand; Fiscal Dominance; Ethiopia;
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    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes

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