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New frontiers for menetary policy in Chile
Inflation targeting can be broadly defined as a framework for the conduct of MONETARY POLICY in which the central bank guides its instruments in order to hold inflation near a preannounced target or to bring back to the target. Although understanding the framework is straightfoward, its practical ...
Metas de inflación y el objetivo de pleno empleo
Este trabajo muestra la equivalencia entre distintas formas de plantear el objetivo inflacionario. Definir un rango y el porcentaje del tiempo que se espera estar en él es lo mismo que definir una meta para la proyección de la inflación en un horizonte dado. Ambas formas son similares a definir la ...
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 ...
A 25 Años de la autonomía del Banco Central: Algunas lecciones de política
Es un placer participar en la celebración los 25 años de la autonomía del Banco Central de Chile la que ha sido una piedra angular de nuestro buen desempeño económico. El Banco ha ido perfeccionando sus políticas a través del tiempo y es un ejemplo de cómo una institución es capaz de adaptarse a nuevos ...
Proyección de la inflación en Chile
Este estudio estima dos modelos para la inflación Chilena con parámetros variables para el período 1990 - 1999. El primero está basado en la curva de Phillips y el segundo, en un modelo para una pequeña economía abierta con meta de inflación. Las proyecciones de inflación fuera de la muestra que se ...
Metas de inflación en economías financieramente estables: ¿un sistema suficientemente flexible?
La crisis financiera y la recesión de 2008-2009 exigieron importantes medidas de política de parte de los bancos centrales. Entre los países con metas de inflación, surge la pregunta natural sobre si sus esquemas de política monetaria mostraron la flexibilidad necesaria para hacer frente a estos ...
Quantitative easing and financial stability
Since the global financial crisis of 2008–09 many of the leading central banks have dramatically increased the size of their balance sheets and have shifted the composition of the assets that they hold toward larger shares of longer-term securities (as well as toward assets that are riskier in other ...
Imperfect knowledge and the pitfalls of optimal control monetary policy
Sixty years ago, Milton Friedman questioned the usefulness of the optimal control approach because of policymakers’ imperfect knowledge of the economy and favored instead a simple rule approach to monetary policy (1947, 1948). These are still live issues, despite the development of powerful techniques ...
Capital flow management with multiple instruments
Emerging markets (EMs) are affected by a global financial cycle originating in developed economies (Rey 2013). An increase in risk appetite of developed economies perhaps spurred by easy monetary policy leads to a surge in capital flows to EMs. These foreign capital flows especially foreign portfolio ...
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 ...