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 ...

From 1984 to 1998, the Chilean economy grew at a rate of 5.4 percent per capita, putting it among the world’s most successful economies in the past twenty years. This performance can undoubtedly be attributed to the market-oriented structural reforms that took place in the 1970s, 1980s, and early ...

In mid-January 1990, Brazil abandoned its crawling exchange rate band. Surprisingly enough, the country's economic performance in the aftermath of this episode was much better than expected, given the performance of other emerging market economies after a move toward floating. Despite the large ...

El índice de Percepción de la Economía (IPEC), desarrollado en Chile por Adimark, es un barómetro de la confianza de los consumidores que pretende capturar la percepción de estos sobre la situación económica actual y futura del país, así como sobre las condiciones de vida de las personas. Se calcula ...

Acta mecanografiada

Acta mecanografiada

Acta mecanografiada

Acta mecanografiada

For the last few years, the staff of the Iternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has been engaged in assessing the functioning and effectiveness of inflation targeting in IMF member countries that have adopted this scheme as their monetary policy anchor. This involvement was restricted to the IMF's surveillance ...

Esta publicación contiene información anual sobre dinero, cuasidinero, emisión, multiplicadores monetarios, depósitos y colocaciones del sistema financiero y tasas de interés. Estos antecedentes se proporcionan tanto en términos de saldos promedios mensuales como de saldos a fin de mes.