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The monetary policy transmission mechanism and policy rules in Canada
The inflation targeting regime in place in Canada requires a clear understanding of the monetary policy transmission mechanism and a way to exploit knowledge of that mechanism in making policy decisions. This paper describes the Bank of Canada's current undestanding of the monetary policy transmission ...
Alternative monetary rules in the open-economy: a welfare-based approach
How do central banks choose among alternative monetary polocies? In this paper we analyze that question for an open economy following an interest rate rule. Many issues remain controversial in the design of such a rule. If inflation is targeted, as it presumably is, should the domestic interest rate ...
Macroeconomía, política monetaria y patrimonio del Banco Central de Chile
En este artículo se hacen proyecciones estocásticas del balance (saldos y flujos) del Banco Central de Chile, a partir de su situación deficitaria actual. Estas proyecciones incorporan el efecto que tienen sobre el balance algunas variables macroeconómicas y políticas alternativas y dan cuenta de la ...
Monetary policy under flexible exchange rates: an introduction to inflation targeting
Both policymakers and economists increasingly accept that the main medium- to long-run goal of monetary policy is the pursuit of price stability, defined as maintaining a low and stable rate of inflation. A high and variable inflation rate is socially and economically costly.
Política monetaria bajo incertidumbre y aprendizaje: una introducción
Todo banco central debe tomar sus decisiones de política en medio de un escenario incierto, basándose en su conocimiento imperfecto y cambiante sobre la economía. Aunque la investigación sobre política monetaria con incertidumbre y aprendizaje ha encontrado pocos resultados generales, una lección ...
Heterogeneidad de la transmisión monetaria: efectos sectoriales y regionales
Numerosos estudios han revisado la transmisión de la política monetaria en Chile y su impacto sobre las variables agregadas de la economía. Sin embargo, puede que exista información valiosa en un análisis de efectos más específicos sobre los distintos componentes de la actividad económica. Por ello, ...
Response to external and inflation schocks in a small open economy
Monetary policy design has experienced major changes over the last twenty years. These changes had their origin in changes in macroeconomic theory, a better understanding of the importance of achieving and maintaining low inflation, and the abandonment of fixed pegs in favor of floating exchange rate ...
Dinero e inflación en el marco de metas de inflación
Este trabajo examina el rol del dinero en el actual marco de metas de inflación, en vista del importante crecimiento que ha mostrado el M1A en el último tiempo. Se analiza, desde un punto de vista conceptual, la relación que existe entre dinero e inflación, así como la interpretación que pueden tener ...
The monetary transmission mechanism and the evaluation of monetary policy rules
This paper explores the connection between the monetary transmission mechanism -the channel through which a change in monetary policy affects the economy- and the choice of monetary policy rules to guide central bank decisions. Differente views of the monetary transmission mechanism are readily apparent ...
The monetary transmission mechanism in the United Kingdom: pass-through and policy rules
A number of recent papers have used policy simulations from small empirical macroeconomic models to assess the efficacy of inflation targeting or, more precisely, inflation forecast targeting (Svensson, 1997a). These include Rudebush and Svensson (1999). The models used to undertake these simulations ...
Under what conditions can inflation targeting be adopted? The experience of emerging markets
Inflation targeting has become an increasingly popular monetary policy strategy, with 21 countries (8 industrial and 13 emerging market economies) targeting inflation and others considering following in their footsteps. Numerous studies of inflation targeting in industrial countries have been conducted, ...
Regularidades empíricas del entorno internacional relevante para la economía Chilena
En el presente estudio se analizan regularidades macroeconómicas dentro de los grandes bloques económicos (EE.UU., Europa y Japón) y se describe la interacción entre variables relevantes de estos bloques y su relación con variables de interés para la economía Chilena como precios de productos básicos, ...
Metas de inflación y el objetivo de pleno empleo
Este trabajo muestra la equivalencia entre distintas formas de plantear el objetivo inflacionario. Definir un rango y el porcentaje del tiempo que se espera estar en él es lo mismo que definir una meta para la proyección de la inflación en un horizonte dado. Ambas formas son similares a definir la ...
Sorpresas de política monetaria y la curva de rendimiento en Chile
Este trabajo estima el impacto de una innovación de política monetaria sobre la curva de rendimiento nominal y real en Chile durante el período 2002-2007. Usando información de la curva forward para obtener el elemento no anticipado de la acción de política, se encuentra que el efecto de una sorpresa ...
Transparency, flexibility, and inflation targeting
Three parallel and certainly not independent changes have occurred in central bank practices over the past fifteen years. The first is the spread of central bank independence, which is tied to the notion that even when the government plays a role in setting the goals of monetary policy, central banks ...
Monetary policy in Chile: a black box?
During the 1990s the Chilean economy gradually cut its inflation rate from figures in the thirties to 4.7 percent in 1998. Central bank authorities have declared that the main objective of monetary policy is to reduce inflation to levels comparableto those in industrial countries. The desgnated ...
Acerca del nivel adecuado de las reservas internacionales: el caso de Chile
Bajo un régimen de tipo de cambio flexible, las reservas internacionales de un país contribuyen a reducir los riesgos de crisis de liquidez y permiten a la autoridad intervenir excepcionalmente en el mercado cambiario. Sin embargo, mantener reservas también es costoso. En este trabajo se discute una ...
Overoptimism boom-bust cycles and monetary policy in small open economies
In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...
A sticky-information general equilibrium model for policy analysis
Following on Keynes’s desire that economists be as useful as dentists, Lucas (1980) argues that this would amount to the following: “Our task, as I see it, is to write a FORTRAN program that will accept specific economic policy rules as ‘input’ and will generate as ‘output’ statistics describing the ...
Indexation, inflationary inertia, and the sacrifice coeficient
When inflation is chronic, firms develop indexation practices that automatically tie the growth of prices, wages, and other contracts to the performance of some comprehensive price index. The microeconomic advantages of indexation are evident and derive from the immunization of the relative price ...