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The relationship between exchange rates and inflation targeting revisited
For decades, the exchange rate was at the center of macroeconomic policy debates in emerging markets. Many countries used the nominal exchange rate to bring down inflation, –others—mostly in Latin America—used the exchange rate to implicitly tax the export sector. Currency crises were common and usually ...
Labor market distortions, employment and grwth: the recent chilean experience
From 1984 to 1998, the Chilean economy grew at a rate of 5.4 percent per capita, putting it among the world’s most successful economies in the past twenty years. This performance can undoubtedly be attributed to the market-oriented structural reforms that took place in the 1970s, 1980s, and early ...
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 ...
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 ...
Impuesto al co2 en el sector eléctrico Chileno: efectividad y efectos macroeconómicos
Chile se ha comprometido internacionalmente a reducir sus emisiones de CO2 en 30% al año 2030. Como el sector eléctrico aporta 42% del total de emisiones, recientemente se ha introducido un impuesto al CO2 de US$5 por tonelada emitida. Sin embargo, no existe una estimación del efecto de esta política ...
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 ...
Government spending and the real exchange rate: a cross-country perspective
There is no consensus about the economic implications of real exchange rate (RER) misalignments. Some authors argue that keeping the real exchange rate away from its equilibrium level creates distortions in the relative prices of tradable and nontradable goods generating misleading signals to economic ...
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 ...
Complementariedad entre un impuesto de tasa plana y subsidios monetarios para mejorar la distribución del ingreso en Chile
Este estudio analiza políticas redistributivas de Chile asociadas al establecimiento de un impuesto a la renta del tipo flat tax, y la ampliación del 'ingreso ético familiar', utilizando un modelo de equilibrio general computable dinámico combinado con microsimulaciones. Los resultados muestran que, ...
¿Son mejores los sistemas financieros basados en el sistema bancario o los basados en el mercado bursátil?
Por más de un siglo, los economistas y quienes tienen a cargo la política económica han debatido las ventajas relativas a los sistemas financieros basados en el mercado bursátil con respecto a los basados en el sistema bancario. Recientemente, sin embargo, quienes han propuesto un desarrollo del sistema ...