Arbeitspapier
Real Interest Rates, Bubbles and Monetary Policy in the GCC countries
The Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Their monetary policy objective is to stabilize the foreign price, i.e., exchange rate instead of the domestic price level, where the nominal interest rate is equalized with the US federal fund rate, but the inflation rates are independent. High oil prices and the depreciating US dollar caused inflation to rise and real interest rates to be persistently negative in the UAE and Qatar. Asset prices bubbles formed then burst creating large loses. They could have moderated the effect of, or avoided, the bubble had they floated the currency and stabilized domestic prices.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 03/2010
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Central Banks and Their Policies
- Subject
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Inflation
real interest rate
bubbles
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bentour, E. M.
Razzak, W. A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
- (where)
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Brussels
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bentour, E. M.
- Razzak, W. A.
- Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
Time of origin
- 2010
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