Political instability and inflation volatility

The purpose of this International Monetary Fund Working Paper is to empirically determine the causes of worldwide diversity of inflation volatility.

Politically-unstable countries are often susceptible to political shocks, leading to discontinuous monetary and fiscal policies and higher inflation volatility. The authors show that higher degrees of political instability, ideological polarization, and political fragmentation are associated with higher inflation volatility.

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