Jean-Claude Maswana   ''Assessing the Money, Exchange Rate, Price Links during Hyperinflationary Episodes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo'' ( 2005, Vol. 15 No.19 )     The determination of the causal pattern among inflation, money growth, and exchange rate has important implications for policymakers regarding appropriate stabilization policies in developing economies. Using Congolese data where the pace of broad money growth and hyperinflation (23,760% annual change) reached record levels in early 1990s, we use single-equation multivariate autoregressive models with the optimal lag selected using Hsiaofs approach to Granger causality. Results indicate feedback causality between inflation and money growth on one side, and unidirectional Granger causality from money growth to the exchange rate and from the exchange rate to inflation on the other. These results suggest that the over-riding goal of disinflation needs to be accomplished initially by exchange rate stabilization, followed by a direct inflation targeting.     Keywords: JEL: O5 - Economywide Country Studies: General E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General   Manuscript Received : Aug 28 2005   Manuscript Accepted : Oct 26 2005   This abstract has been downloaded 2318 times                The Full PDF of this paper has been downloaded 166541 times