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Indexation of public debt: analytical considerations and an application to the case of Brazil
Since the implementation of the Real Plan of 1994, the Brazilian economy has been in the process of reducing its degree of indexation. For more than three decades, Brazilian wages, rents, financial securities, and other contracts were indexed to the price level. The frequency of adjustment sometimes ...
Shocks de oferta persistentes: ¿un dolor de cabeza para los bancos centrales?
pensaba cuando se iniciaron y llevaron la tasa de inflación a niveles muy superiores a la meta establecida por el Banco Central En este contexto, el objetivo de este artículo es analizar y cuantificar las implicaciones de shocks de oferta más persistentes...
The passthrough of large-cost shocks in an inflationary economy
This paper surveys and modestly extends the theory of menu-cost
models of the behavior of the aggregate price level after large-cost
shocks. It does so in the context of an economy with a high underlying
rate of inflation. It concentrates on the effect of large permanent and
unexpected increases ...
The chilean experience in completing markets with financial indexation
For a Chilean capital market participant, it may be hard to imagine a world without the indexation unit, the Unidad de Fomento (UF). Most market participants would probably agree that the UF played a central role in the creation of a local capital market and also that it has had a positive impact on ...
Targeting inflation in an economy with staggered price setting
After experiencing high and persistent inflation rates in the 1970s and early 1980s, most industrialized economies entered the new century with a sustained record of flow, stable inflation rates. Many commentators attribute the new environment to good luck, in the form of no major supply shocks (at ...
Inflation targeting and the inflation process: lessons from an open economy
Inflation targeting in an open economy insolves a number of complexities that do not arise with inflation targeting in a clises economy. One of these is that central banks in open economies have to decide how to repond to changes in the exchange rate.
Inflation targets in a global context
Inflation targeting has become a global framework. There is an inflation-targeting country on every continent, and many other countries have introduced particular characteristics of inflation targeting into their monetary framework. Inflation targets have thus far proved to be durable: no country has ...
Teorías y métodos de medición del producto de tendencia: una aplicación al caso de Chile
Este artículo presenta una revisión de las teorías de determinación del producto de tendencia. Se discuten alternativas metodológicas para derivar el producto de tendencia de la economía Chilena, utilizando información histórica trimestral para el período 1986-2001. Entre los métodos considerados ...
Proyecciones macroeconómicas en Chile: una aproximación estructural y bayesiana
uso generalizado en los bancos centrales: un BVAR, un modelo reducido neokeynesiano y un DSGE, todos estimados con econometría bayesiana. Se utilizan como benchmark modelos univariados de series de tiempo (AR(1) y camino aleatorio) pero estimados con...
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 ...