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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 ...
Un modelo de factores dinámicos de pequeña escala para el Imacec
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 ...
Inflación de bienes y servicios
El INE publica habitualmente una descomposición de la serie de IPC entre bienes transables (IPCT) y no transables (IPCN). En los primeros meses del 2007 se produjo una discrepancia —al parecer, inusual— entre las tasas de inflación de estos dos componentes. Este documento tiene por fin mejorar la ...
Metas de nivel de precios y metas de inflación: una revisión de la literatura
Las autoridades monetarias de países tanto desarrollados como en desarrollo tienen, como uno de sus principales objetivos, lograr la estabilidad de precios. Para alcanzar este objetivo este logro, muchos bancos centrales han adoptado formalmente un esquema de metas de inflación (MI). Bajo MI, el banco ...
Monetary policy and global spillovers: mechanisms, effects and policy measures
Central Banks in emerging markets have been forced in the last decade to deal with spillovers from the crises in the United States and Europe and from the extraordinary measures respectively taken by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. This volume provides a comprehensive study of the ...
The three E’s of central-bank communication with the public
Central banks used to ask, “Shall we communicate this?” Now, as a rule, they ask, “Why wouldn’t we communicate this?” This
first wave of the revolution in central-bank communication is giving rise to a second wave. The question increasingly is, “How should we communicate this in a way that engages a ...
Central banking with many voices: the communications arms race
The job of central bankers is to use the monetary powers granted to them to promote price stability, sustainable growth, and a stable financial system. They do this in an environment fraught with unavoidable uncertainties. But, in conducting policy, there is one uncertainty that policymakers can and ...
Monetary policy: rules and transmission mechanisms
Monetary policy must consider the bidirectional relationship between the economy and its central bank. It should therefore address two essential questions: first, how changes in the economy induce a reaction by the central bank, and second, how these policy changes are in turn transmitted to the ...
Monetary policy under financial turbulence
The financial crisis that started in 2007 brought the global economy to the brink, and in many respects it is still unfolding, especially in Europe. While a fierce debate continues on how to understand and deal with the crisis, a consensus is emerging with regard to the originating shocks, the mechanisms ...
Independence, credibility, and communication of central banking
The three topics covered in the title of this volume have proved to be critical in the remarkable success of modern central banks around the globe in the fight to control inflation and smooth macroeconomic fluctuations. Despite these achievements, some old challenges have come back in recent years and ...