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 ...

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 ...

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 an open economy insolves a number of complexities that do not arise with inflation targeting in a clises economy. One of these is that central banks in open economies have to decide how to repond to changes in the exchange rate.

Una cuestión central para el manejo de la política monetaria en economías abiertas a flujos de bienes y servicios es entender cuál es la relación entre los movimientos del tipo de cambio nominal y el comportamiento de los precios locales. En particular, entender en qué medida, y a través de qué ...

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 ...

En una economía pequeña y abierta como la chilena, el tipo de cambio (TC) es una variable fundamental para la determinación de la inflación y la actividad. Una buena comprensión de los movimientos pasados y futuros del TC parece esencial para una política monetaria adecuada. La presente minuta analiza ...

La presente nota estudia el rol que juegan las rigideces salariales en la trayectoria de inflación en presencia de shocks, en particular de aquellos que llevan la inflación a valores negativos. Para lo anterior se utiliza el modelo estructural de proyecciones MEP — que se supone en equilibrio inicial— ...

Las fluctuaciones cambiarias son una fuente importante de variaciones en la tasa de inflación de una economía. Ellas se manifiestan directamente en el precio de los bienes importados, e indirectamente a través del costo de los insumos importados que contienen algunos bienes y que se traspasan al precio. ...

Chile offers an example of a country that has overcome the fear of floating by reducing balance-sheet mismatches; enhancing financial-market development; and improving monetary, fiscal, and political institutions; while strengthening policy credibility. Under the floating regime, Chile’s economic ...