Jurnal Penelitian Ekonomi dan Bisnis
Vol 5, No 2 (2020): Jurnal Penelitian Ekonomi dan Bisnis

PATH ANALYSIS OF MONETARY POLICY MECHANISMS: DOES ECONOMIC CAPACITY MEDIATE PRICES?

MG Westri Kekalih Susilowati (Management Study Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Soegijapranata Catholic University)
Retno Yustini Wahyuningdyah (Management Study Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Soegijapranata Catholic University)



Article Info

Publish Date
18 Sep 2020

Abstract

The single objective of Bank Indonesia is Rupiah's stability. Within the monetary policy framework, the monetary instruments affect the operational targets (money supply and interest rates). Those operational targets effect rupiah stability troughs its effect on economic capacity/GDP.  Using 108 monthly data, that is analyzed by path analysis; this study discusses the effect of net foreign assets (NFA) and net domestic assets (NDA,) and interest rates on the prices (CPI) through their effects GDP. The results show that NFA and NDA have a significant positive effect on GDP, while interest rates are tended to be negative. However, neither the NFA nor the NDA has been proven to have a direct significant effect on CPI. The interest rate has been proven to have a direct significant effect on CPI. GDP was not proven to have a significant effect on the CPI and neither mediates the effects of operational targets on CPI.Keywords: Rupiah; Prices; CPI; Stability; Money

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Journal Info

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jpeb

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Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance

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JPEB is a periodical publication (two times a year, in March and September) with the primary objective to disseminate scientific articles in the fields of management, economics, accounting, and islamic economics. JPEB is accept your manuscript both written in Indonesian or ...