Over the last twenty years, many central banks have adopted increasing standards of transparency in communicating their monetary policy objectives, in particular regarding the explicit definition and quantification of their price stability objective or inflation target. One important benefit of increased ...

The global financial crisis of 2007–09 has illustrated the importance of including funding liquidity feedbacks in any model of systemic risk. This paper illustrates how we have incorporated such channels into a risk assessment model for systemic institutions (RAMSI) and it outlines the Bank of England’s ...

The global financial crisis that started in 2008 dramatically changed the analysis and implementation of monetary policy worldwide. Central banks were at the center of the stage during that time implementing both conventional and unconventional policies. Not only were monetary policy rates drastically ...

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 ...

Monetary policy has come under strain since the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007–09. Once the GFC broke out central banks’ swift and determined response was essential to stabilise markets and to avoid a self-reinforcing downward spiral between the financial system and the real economy. But putting ...

Entre los años 2007 y 2008, la economía Chilena experimentó severos shocks de costos (aumentos de los precios internacionales de los productos básicos, incrementos del costo de la energía, sequías), los que fueron más persistentes de lo que se pensaba cuando se iniciaron y llevaron la tasa de inflación ...

El artículo analiza los ciclos económicos en las economías emergentes generados por errores de percepción respecto de la productividad futura. Utilizando un modelo DSGE para economía pequeña y abierta, se demuestra que las noticias que no se materializan respecto de mejoras de productividad futuras ...

Around the world, most central banks set policy by committee. This is motivated in part by the idea that groups reach better decisions than individuals and in part by a desire for representation of different geographical areas and economic constituencies in policymaking. The Bank for International ...

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 ...