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Estimación de brecha y tendencia para la economía Chilena
Los componentes de tendencia y de brecha del PIB constituyen piezas claves para la evaluación y proyección de modelos estándares de política monetaria. Sin embargo, la medición de estas variables está plagada de dificultades. En este trabajo se proponen dos enfoques diferentes. El primero consiste en ...
Monetary policy and key unobservables: evidence from large industrial and selected inflation-targeting countries
In recent years, the design of monetary policy has focused on gaps—the output gap, the interest rate gap, and the unemployment rate gap have all played a role in policy discussions. Standard models used for policy analysis are either specified in terms of such gaps or imply important roles for these ...
Política monetaria y mecanismos de transmisión: nuevos elementos para una vieja discusión
El presente trabajo comienza revisando la literatura existente sobre transmisión monetaria, con especial atención en la evidencia disponible para Chile. Luego aborda dos temas que no han recibido la debida atención en estudios previos, como son i) la evolución del impacto de la política monetaria sobre ...
Policy biases when the monetary and fiscal authorities have different objectives
Until recently, the debate on the relationship between monetary and fiscal authorities centered on the inflationary consequences of mentary financing of the fiscal deficit. The moderately high inflation of the 1970s in some industrialized countries and, particularly, the recurring episodes of very ...
Determinacy, learnability, and plausibility in monetary policy analysis: additional results
It is almost superfluous to begin by emphasizing that recent research in monetary policy analysis has featured a great deal of work concerning conditions for determinacy—that is, existence of a unique dynamically stable rational expectations equilibrium— under various specifications of policy behavior.1 ...
Enfrentando la vulnerabilidad externa de Chile: un problema financiero
Con los desequilibrios macroeconómicos tradicionales hace tiempo bajo control, el ciclo económico Chileno es determinado principalmente por shocks externos. Más importante aún, la vulnerabilidad externa de Chile es básicamente un problema financiero. Es así como un deterioro en los términos de intercambio ...
Does inflation targeting make a difference?
Inflation targeting is the new kid on the block of monetary regimes. Since New Zealand and Chile first adopted the regime in 1990, a growing number of industrial and developing countries have followed suit, anchoring their monetary policy to explicit targets for inflation.
Inflation targeting in the context of IMF-Supported adjustment programs
For the last few years, the staff of the Iternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has been engaged in assessing the functioning and effectiveness of inflation targeting in IMF member countries that have adopted this scheme as their monetary policy anchor. This involvement was restricted to the IMF's surveillance ...
Optimal monetary policy in a small, open economy: a general-equilibrium analysis
The two central issues in monetary policy are separated by time horizon. The first relates to the short run: what is the appropriate monetary policy across the business cycle? The second relates to the long run: waht is the optimal long-run rate of inflation? This paper explores these classic issues ...
Shocks externos y transmisión de la política monetaria en Chile
Este trabajo considera evidencia empírica para una economía pequeña y abierta, caracterizando e identificando los efectos dinámicos de shocks externos y de política monetaria sobre la economía Chilena. Se utiliza la metodología de VAR estructurales con restricciones contemporáneas no recursivas. De ...