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The relationship between exchange rates and inflation targeting revisited
For decades, the exchange rate was at the center of macroeconomic policy debates in emerging markets. Many countries used the nominal exchange rate to bring down inflation, –others—mostly in Latin America—used the exchange rate to implicitly tax the export sector. Currency crises were common and usually ...
Monetary policy under uncertainty and learning: an overview
Central bank economists and academic economists conducting research on the design of monetary policy have made significant advances in recent years. This work has led to a clearer understanding of the desirable properties of interest rate rules, the role of announcements and communication, and the ...
Índices podados como medidas de tendencia para el imacec
El objetivo de este trabajo es elaborar una gama de índices de actividad de tendencia a partir de las series desagregadas que componen el índice mensual de actividad económica, Imacec. Siguiendo técnicas estadísticas similares a las usadas para generar series subyacentes de inflación, se espera que ...
Inflation target transparency and the macroeconomy
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 ...
Optimal inflation targeting under alternative fiscal regimes
Inflation targeting has become an increasingly popular approach to the conduct of monetary policy worldwide since the early 1990s. Most of the countries that have adopted inflation targeting judge the experiment favorably, at least thus far. In many countries, the adoption of inflation targeting has ...
Shocks de petróleo e inflación, el caso de Chile y una muestra de países industriales
Este trabajo evalúa el impacto de una perturbación del petróleo sobre diversos componentes del índice de precios al consumidor para varios países, Chile incluido. Todos los países analizados muestran una respuesta significativa de la inflación total, de precios energéticos y no subyacente. También se ...
Does inflation targeting make a difference?
Since New Zealand adopted inflation targeting in 1990, a steadily growing number of industrial and emerging economies have explicitly adopted an inflation target as their nominal anchor. Eight industrial countries and thirteen emerging economies had full-fledged inflation targeting in place in early ...
Monetary policy and key unobservables: evidence from large industrial and selected inflation-targeting countries
In recent years, the design of monetary policy has focused on gaps—the output gap, the interest rate gap, and the unemployment rate gap have all played a role in policy discussions. Standard models used for policy analysis are either specified in terms of such gaps or imply important roles for these ...
La compensación inflacionaria y sus componentes en Chile
Este documento estudia los determinantes de los componentes de la compensación inflacionaria definida como la diferencia que existe entre las tasas de interés nominales e indexadas. Lo anterior permite evaluar cuánto inciden estos en las elecciones de portafolio de los agentes económicos y, por lo ...
Política cambiaria en Chile: el abandono de la banda y la experiencia de flotación
Como muchos otros países, en los últimos cuarenta años Chile ha experimentado virtualmente todos los sistemas cambiarios posibles, con la excepción de adoptar una moneda foránea. La búsqueda de una política cambiaria adecuada ha estado determinada, en parte, por los distintos objetivos que han tenido ...