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Imperfect knowledge and the pitfalls of optimal control monetary policy
Sixty years ago, Milton Friedman questioned the usefulness of the optimal control approach because of policymakers’ imperfect knowledge of the economy and favored instead a simple rule approach to monetary policy (1947, 1948). These are still live issues, despite the development of powerful techniques ...
Heterodox central banking
In response to the current global crisis the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have implemented diverse policy measures including purchasing a wide range of securities lending to financial institutions intervening in foreign exchange markets and paying interest on reserves. ...
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 ...
Inflation targeting in financially stable economies: has it been flexible enough?
The international financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008- 09 called for a range of significant policy measures by central banks beyond aggressive interest rate cuts. Measures have ranged from improving international coordination to purchasing local private loan portfolios and direct intervention ...
Banco Central de Chile 1925-1964: una historia institucional: introducción
En la actualidad es difícil imaginar el funcionamiento de la economía sin la existencia de un banco central. Sin embargo es interesante destacar que la gran mayoría de los bancos centrales del mundo fueron creados recién durante el primer tercio del siglo XX. Con anterioridad a pesar de que ya se había ...
Banco Central de Chile 1925-1964: una historia institucional
La serie de libros 'Banca Central Análisis y Políticas Económicas' del Banco Central de Chile publica trabajos inéditos sobre banca central y sobre la economía en general con énfasis en temas y políticas relacionados con la conducción económica de los países en desarrollo. La publicación de los libros ...