L’impact attendu de la pandémie sur le coût de la vie. Le cas de la Communauté économique et Monétaire d’Afrique centrale (CEMAC)

Kuikeu, Oscar (2020): L’impact attendu de la pandémie sur le coût de la vie. Le cas de la Communauté économique et Monétaire d’Afrique centrale (CEMAC).

Abstract

With the Advent of Community his members must to have an rate of inflation less than 3% per annum. An rhythm very closed to that of industrialized economies in Europe the anchor economy. Thus, is this means that the relative purchasing power parity is verified into the union? In other words, what are the consequences of this for the living cost into the Community in this context of adjustment due to the Outbreak? These are the main questions we are try to answer, here. Globally speaking, considering the results panel data remains an confortable and suitable framework to assess this kind of hypotheses with the structure of the member States into the Community very closed to each other.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Expected effect of the Outbreak on the Living cost. The case of the Common States of the Central Africa Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC)
• Language: French
• Keywords: relative purchasing power, living cost, CEMAC
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models ; Multiple Variables > C33 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E52 - Monetary Policy; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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