Long-Run Relationship Between Interest and Inflation Differentials
In an open economy with integrated financial markets, the long-run constraints on monetary policy are effectively enforced by global investors. Their collective actions ensure that, over the long term, the nominal interest rate differential between two countries must approximately match their inflation differential. This market-driven outcome is expressed by the formula:
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