TY - RPRT AU - Ha, Jongrim AU - Kim, Dohan AU - Kose, M. Ayhan AU - Prasad, Eswar TI - Resolving Puzzles of Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets PY - 2024/Nov/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 17431 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17431 AB - Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and depreciation of the currency (the FX puzzle). We show that incorporating forward-looking expectations into standard open economy structural VAR models resolves these puzzles. Specifically, we augment the models with novel survey-based measures of expectations based on consumer, business, and professional forecasts. We find that the rise in prices following monetary tightening is related to currency depreciation, so eliminating the FX puzzle helps solve the price puzzle. KW - prize puzzle KW - emerging market economies KW - monetary policy KW - foreign exchange puzzle ER -