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Does inflation targeting increase output volatility?: an international comparison of policymakers' preferences and outcomes
Monetary policy regimes around the world changed dramatically over the decade of the 1990s. Central banks have become more transparent, more independent, more accountable, and (apparently) more successful. The biggest transformation has benn the move away from focusing on intermediate objectives, susch ...
Equity market spillovers in the Americas
Many aspects of financial markets merit monitoring in risk management and portfolio allocation contexts, including (and perhaps especially) in contexts of interest to central banks. Much recent attention, for example, has been devoted to measuring and forecasting return volatilities and correlations, ...
Contingent reserves management: an applied framework
One of the most serious problems that a central bank in an emerging market economy can face is the sudden reversal of capital inflows (or sudden stops). Hoarding international reserves can be used to smooth the impact of such reversals (see, for example, Lee, 2004), but these reserves are seldom ...
Forward guidance in hte yield curve: short rates versis bond supply
Since late 2008 when short-term interest rates reached their zero lower bound central banks have been conducting monetary policy through two primary instruments: quantitative easing (QE) in which they buy long-term government bonds and other long-term securities and so-called forward guidance in which ...
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.
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...
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 ...
Riesgo financiero y política monetaria: una aplicación para Chile
los bancos centrales deberían o no incluir en forma explícita el indicador de estabilidad financiera en la función de reacción de la tasa de interés de política monetaria. Los resultados indican que, en general, la inclusión de la distancia a la...
Metas de inflación en economías financieramente estables: ¿un sistema suficientemente flexible?
La crisis financiera y la recesión de 2008-2009 exigieron importantes medidas de política de parte de los bancos centrales. Entre los países con metas de inflación, surge la pregunta natural sobre si sus esquemas de política monetaria mostraron la...