For decades until the early 1990s, Latin America was the region of the world with the highest average level of inflation. High inflation was the cumulative result of a long history of activist economic policies based on a disregard for macroeconomic stability. These policies culminated in large ...

Does tight monetary policy stabilize the currency after a collapse?. Does the effect of high interest rates on the exchange rate depend on the condition of the banking system? The East Asian crises and other recent currency crises have put these questions at the center of economic policymaking decisions.

Monetary policy design has experienced major changes over the last twenty years. These changes had their origin in changes in macroeconomic theory, a better understanding of the importance of achieving and maintaining low inflation, and the abandonment of fixed pegs in favor of floating exchange rate ...

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 ...

With the end of intermediate exchange rate regimes, countries are either abandoning domestic monetary policy (by choosing super-hard pegs or relinquishing their national currencies altogether) or strengthening independent monetary policymaking (by adopting floating exchange rates, of either the clean ...

Usando una nueva base de datos que incluye la composición por monedas de activos y pasivos de firmas del sector no financiero, este estudio analiza los efectos y determinantes de los descalces cambiarios en Chile. En línea con estudios anteriores, encontramos que después de una depreciación real, las ...

El objetivo principal del presente artículo es estimar la trayectoria del tipo de cambio real de equilibrio para Chile utilizando un modelo de comportamiento para el período 1977.I-2003.III. Utilizando técnicas de cointegración se halla una relación de cointegración entre el tipo de cambio real (TCR) ...

Durante los últimos años la economía chilena ha sufrido shocks importantes que han implicado un gran desafío para la conducción de la política monetaria. El fin del súper ciclo de las materias primas y condiciones financieras internacionales más estrechas junto con una caída importante en los niveles ...

This paper evaluates the capacity of emerging market economies (EMEs) to moderate the domestic impact of global financial and monetary forces through their own monetary policies. I present the case that those EMEs able to exploit a flexible exchange rate are far better positioned than those that devote ...

Monetary policy in small open economies is typically cast as a choice between an exchange rate anchor (fixed or predetermined exchange rates) and a money anchor (floating exchange rates). Under such regimes, the growth rate of the nominal anchor is set according to the desired long-run inflation rate. ...