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Inflation targeting versus price-path targeting: looking for improvements
The world’s central banks have undergone dramatic changes in the past fifteen years. Increases in independence and transparency have been coupled with a shift in focus. Price stability is now the paramount objective for the vast majority of modern central bankers. Combined, these changes in central ...
International aspects of the zero lower bound constraint
Large negative aggregate demand shocks can drive down an economy’s equilibrium real interest rate and if the central bank is committed to stabilizing inflation monetary policy may be hampered by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates –the economy may be in a 'liquidity trap.' The policy dilemma ...
Funding liquidity risk in a quantitative model of systemic stability
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...