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Estimating monetary policy rules for South Africa
Monetary policy in South Africa's emerging market economy, given capital account liberalization and severe constraints on fiscal policy, has the major responsability for curbing inflation and currency instability while trying to ensure sufficient growth for longer-term political stability and the ...
New frontiers for menetary policy in Chile
Inflation targeting can be broadly defined as a framework for the conduct of MONETARY POLICY in which the central bank guides its instruments in order to hold inflation near a preannounced target or to bring back to the target. Although understanding the framework is straightfoward, its practical ...
Changing inflation dynamics, evolving monetary policy: an overview
Understanding the dynamics of inflation has become an important
challenge for both policymakers and researchers over the past decade.
Empirical models linking inflation and economic activity—versions of
the so-called Phillips curve—have failed to account for the behavior of
inflation in many ...
El horizonte de la política monetaria en Chile y otros países con metas de inflación
La tolerancia a cierta volatilidad en la tasa de inflación lleva a que aquellos países que tienen metas de inflación diseñen su política monetaria de modo que refleje flexibilidad en cuatro dimensiones: el índice de precios para el cual se define la meta, el ancho del rango meta, el punto medio del ...
Compensación inflacionaria y premios por riesgo: evidencia para Chile
En economías con metas de inflación, como es el caso de Chile, el monitoreo constante por parte del Banco Central respecto de las expectativas de inflación al horizonte de política monetaria es un elemento de primer orden al momento de evaluar cómo el mercado incorpora en los precios de activos shocks ...
The macroeconomic conseguences of wage indexation revisited
Since the mid-1970s, the macroeconomic consequences of wage indexation has been the subject of considerable research. Starting with an enthusiastic proposal for indexation by Friedman (1974) and two influential papers by Gray (1976) and Fischer (1977), the academic literature has examined the effects ...
Explicación del movimiento del tipo de cambio ¿qué aporta el diferencial de tasas?
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 ...
Monetary policy under inflation targeting: an introduction
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 ...
Optimal monetary policy rules when the current account matters
Policymarkers and the academic community have reached an increasing consensus during the last two decades: the primary objective of monetary policy should be to control inflation (see, for example, King, 1999). A less settled issue is the appropriate role of the central bank regarding other, secondary ...
A decadeof inflation targeting in Chile: developments, lessons, and challenges
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.