El Banco Central de Chile ha publicado su Memoria Integrada 2020, reporte que detalla los principales hitos financieros, medioambientales, de relación con la comunidad, con sus trabajadores y el aporte que la institución hace al país a través del cumplimiento de su mandato legal, con el foco puesto ...

El año 2022 fue complejo para el Banco Central porque su meta de inflación de 3% se vio absolutamente sobrepasada, lo que obligó a nuestra institución a tomar drásticas decisiones de política monetaria, como parte de un ciclo de alzas que ya había comenzado el año anterior. Entre enero y octubre, la ...

The Central Bank faced multiple challenges in 2021, especially due to the consequences of the worst period of the pandemic, which continued to affect the normal functioning of the economy. The persistence of the health crisis substantially changed the ways in which people, institutions, and the financial ...

This volume collects some of the papers presented at the XXV Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile, which took place in November 2022 in Santiago, Chile.1 The theme of the conference was Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics: Implications for Monetary Policy. The main objective of this conference ...

Prepared for the Proceedings of the XXV Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile, held in November 2022. We are grateful for helpful comments and suggestions from Jenny Chan, Sebastián Edwards, Jordi Galí, Peter Ganong, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Jonathan Heathcote, Oleg Itskhoki, Enisse Kharroubi, ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chilean government provided unprecedented economic assistance to households. Direct fiscal transfers through stimulus checks amounted to nine percent of the country’s GDP. Aditionally, three times during the period, policymakers allowed for the possibility of withdrawing ...

The traditional view of macroeconomic dynamics is that aggregate time series can be decomposed into a long-run component (the trend, or the deterministic steady state) and an orthogonal short-run component (the business cycle) which fluctuates around the trend. Quantitative dynamic stochastic general ...

Active recent literature shows that monetary policy has heterogeneous effects on workers in different demographic groups.1 In this paper, we build on the framework in Rubbo (2023) to estimate how monetary policy affects real incomes across demographic groups in the Chilean economy. Specifically, ...

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 ...

For a small open economy, maintaining a stable exchange rate and moderate levels of inflation is often a goal of primary importance. At the same time, the profession has recognized the tight link between fiscal and monetary policies in determining inflation dynamics. Thus, the goal of a stable exchange ...