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Credibility and inflation targeting in Chile
After a long history of high and volatile inflation, the Central Bank of Chile began implementing its monetary policy in the early 1990s by announcing yearly targets for inflation. This new framework was the first step toward a full-fledged inflation-targeting setup, although the Central Bank continued ...
Desviaciones de la paridad cubierta de tasas de interés: experiencia internacional y el caso de Chile
Normalmente se entiende la paridad cubierta de tasas de interés (PCI) como una realidad tanto teórica como empírica que nace de la condición de no arbitraje de los mercados internacionales. No obstante esta no se cumplió durante la crisis financiera mundial del año 2008 para las principales monedas ...
Inflation target transparency and the macroeconomy
Over the last twenty years, many central banks have adopted increasing standards of transparency in communicating their monetary policy objectives, in particular regarding the explicit definition and quantification of their price stability objective or inflation target. One important benefit of increased ...
International aspects of the zero lower bound constraint
Large negative aggregate demand shocks can drive down an economy’s equilibrium real interest rate and if the central bank is committed to stabilizing inflation monetary policy may be hampered by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates –the economy may be in a 'liquidity trap.' The policy dilemma ...
Recesiones y alteraciones financieras en mercados emergentes: una visión panorámica
Presentamos un panorama general de las implicancias de episodios recesivos y de alteración financiera en economías emergentes, y tres conclusiones principales. La primera es que, en comparación con los países avanzados, dichos episodios por lo general resultan más costosos en las economías emergentes. ...
Sobre los determinantes de los spreads marginal y promedio de las tasas de interés bancarias: Chile 1994-2001
El estudio de los spreads de tasas de interés bancarias es clave para entender el proceso de intermediación financiera. Por lo general, la disponibilidad de datos restringe los análisis empíricos a medidas de spreads construidas a partir de los estados financieros de los bancos. Nuestro estudio ocupa ...
A new liquidity risk measure for the Chilean banking sector
El objetivo de este trabajo es construir una medida apropiada del riesgo de liquidez para los bancos Chilenos. Ya existen varias medidas de riesgo de liquidez en la literatura, la mayoría basada en supuestos específicos y en opiniones de expertos. Con el fin de superar los posibles problemas de hacer ...
What drives the current account in commodity exporting countries?: the cases of Chile and New Zealand
As capital markets have become increasingly integrated, savings and investment within countries have tended to become less correlated, in what is known as the Feldstein-Horioka (1980) correlation, with the corollary that savings-investment gaps (that is, current accounts) have tended to become more ...
Inflation targeting in Brazil: shocks, backward-looking prices, and IMF conditionality
In mid-January 1990, Brazil abandoned its crawling exchange rate band. Surprisingly enough, the country's economic performance in the aftermath of this episode was much better than expected, given the performance of other emerging market economies after a move toward floating. Despite the large ...
The effects of U.S. monetary policy on emerging market economies’ sovereign and corporate bond markets
The global environment for emerging market economy (EME) bond markets has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Local currency bond markets (LCBMs) have developed especially in EMEs with low inflation stronger institutions and well defined creditor rights (see Burger and Warnock 2003 2006 ...