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Inflation targeting in the context of IMF-Supported adjustment programs
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 ...
Tax incentives for retirement savings: simulation results in the presence of liquidity constraints and heterogeneous consumers in an OLG-GE model
The overlapping generations general equilibrium (OLG-GE) framework constitutes an important tool for policy evaluation. One of its strengths is that it considers that at any given time the population is composed of workers of different ages and, therefore, whith different time horizons. This has two ...
Inflation targeting and the anchoring of inflation expectations in the Western hemisphere
Many central banks have adopted a formal inflation-targeting framework based on the belief and the theoretical predictions that an explicit and clearly communicated numerical objective for the level of inflation over a specified period would, in itself, be a strong communication device that would help ...
Una mirada al desarrollo económico de Chile desde una perspectiva internacional
Este trabajo estudia la posición relativa de Chile en el tiempo y respecto de otras economías —emergentes o industrializadas— en distintos indicadores de desarrollo económico, particularmente en las últimas dos décadas. Se presenta un análisis descriptivo, sin explorar relaciones causales ni probar ...
Learning, endogenous indexation, and disinflation in the new-keynesian model
Developing a better understanding of the costs of disinflation has long been an important objective for macroeconomic research. Since the 1980s, disinflation episodes and strategies have been studied extensively under the assumption of rational expectations. This assumption implies that central bank ...
A toolkit for analyzing alternative policies in the chilean economy
As noted by Leeper (1995) “the business pages of leading newspapers give the impression that the effects of alternative monetary policies on the macroeconomy are well understood and predictable.” They tend “to write with great certainty that when the monetary authority raises interest rates it slows ...
Trade orientation and labor market evolution: Evidence from chilean plant-level data
Many developing and developed economies consider structural reforms to trade and fiscal policy that are designed to lower taxes and tariffs and stimulate investment and production of the manufacturing sector. A good example of such a country is Chile, which went through a series of structural reforms ...
¿Son mejores los sistemas financieros basados en el sistema bancario o los basados en el mercado bursátil?
Por más de un siglo, los economistas y quienes tienen a cargo la política económica han debatido las ventajas relativas a los sistemas financieros basados en el mercado bursátil con respecto a los basados en el sistema bancario. Recientemente, sin embargo, quienes han propuesto un desarrollo del sistema ...
El horizonte de la política monetaria en Chile y otros países con metas de inflación
La tolerancia a cierta volatilidad en la tasa de inflación lleva a que aquellos países que tienen metas de inflación diseñen su política monetaria de modo que refleje flexibilidad en cuatro dimensiones: el índice de precios para el cual se define la meta, el ancho del rango meta, el punto medio del ...
What drives the current account in commodity exporting countries?: the cases of Chile and New Zealand
As capital markets have become increasingly integrated, savings and investment within countries have tended to become less correlated, in what is known as the Feldstein-Horioka (1980) correlation, with the corollary that savings-investment gaps (that is, current accounts) have tended to become more ...