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A prize worth having: the IMF and price stability
It is always a pleasure to be in Santiago and I am especially pleased to be able to join you at this annual conference which in its nine years has established a high reputation for the quality of the papers and the discussion. This year’s conference is focusing on the subject of inflation targeting. ...
La brecha de producto en Chile: medición y evaluación
El presente trabajo estima la brecha del producto y del crecimiento del producto potencial para Chile durante 1986-2007 con tres diferentes metodologías: (i) función de producción, (ii) aproximación por el filtro de Kalman (univariado y multivariado) y (iii) VAR estructural. Las estimaciones de brecha ...
Traspaso de tipo de cambio nominal a inflación desagregada en Chile
Una cuestión central para el manejo de la política monetaria en economías abiertas a flujos de bienes y servicios es entender cuál es la relación entre los movimientos del tipo de cambio nominal y el comportamiento de los precios locales. En particular, entender en qué medida, y a través de qué ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Monetary policy in Chile: institutions objectives and instruments
Inflation seemed to be an endemic disease of the Chilean economy for most of the 20th century with its presence being felt even before the creation of the Central Bank in 1925. However things seemed to change drastically in the mid 1990s when the country began to experience a sustained process of ...
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 ...
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.