Many central banks have adopted a formal inflation-targeting framework based on the belief and the theoretical predictions that an explicit and clearly communicated numerical objective for the level of inflation over a specified period would, in itself, be a strong communication device that would help ...

The conduct of monetary policy in terms of interest rate or other rules has been extensively studied in recent research. This literature gives a central role to forecasts of future inflation and output, and the question of whether monetary policy should be forward- ooking has been subject to discussion ...

En general, las proyecciones de la actividad económica y su trayectoria son parte de la base fundamental sobre la cual la mayoría de los bancos centrales toman las decisiones de política monetaria. En este contexto, el desarrollo de modelos predictivos siempre es útil en la medida en que diversifiquen ...