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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 ...
Trend, seasonal, and sectorial inflation in the Euro Area
A central focus of monetary policy is the underlying rate of inflation
that might be expected to prevail over a horizon of one or two years.
Because inflation is estimated from noisy data, the estimation of
this underlying rate of inflation, which we refer to as trend inflation,
requires statistical ...
A decadeof inflation targeting in Chile: developments, lessons, and challenges
In the twentieth century, Chile experienced most monetary and exchange rate regimes. Periods of fixed exchange rates usually ended in speculative attacks as a result of inconsistent policies or significant external shocks, generating serious real costs and larger exchange rate volatility.
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 ...
La política monetaria cercada por un movimiento de pinzas
La política monetaria se ha visto cercada entre ciclos financieros crecientes por un lado, y un proceso inflacionario que se ha vuelto bastante insensible a las holguras locales, por el otro. Este doble ataque ha dejado al descubierto algunas de las limitaciones de los marcos de política monetaria ...
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...
Medición de la política monetaria y el traspaso (pass-through) en Chile
Primero, este trabajo presenta una revisión de los principales estudios con VAR monetarios en Chile y en el mundo para medir la política monetaria y el traspaso del tipo de cambio a precios (pass-through). Segundo, se estiman tres VAR estructurales con restricciones de corto plazo y un VEC con ...
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 ...
A decade of inflation targeting in the world: what do we know and what do we need to know?
The emergence of inflation targeting over the last ten years represents an exciting development in central banks' approach to the conduct of monetary policy. After initial adoption by New Zealand in 1990, a growing number of central banks in industrial and emerging economies have opted for inflation ...
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 ...