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The monetary policy transmission mechanism and policy rules in Canada
The inflation targeting regime in place in Canada requires a clear understanding of the monetary policy transmission mechanism and a way to exploit knowledge of that mechanism in making policy decisions. This paper describes the Bank of Canada's current undestanding of the monetary policy transmission ...
Causes and consequences of indexation: a review of the literature
Automatic price adjustment mechanisms, or indexation, have arisen in a variety of economies with distinct macroeconomic environments and in different moments in time. Examples include the labor market indexation implemented in various European countries in the postwar era, the indexation of financial ...
Asset prices in Chile: facts and fads
Chile enjoyed an unprecedent period of rapid and sustained growth in the 1986-98 period. Although average growth exceeded 7.1 percent a year, significant cyclical fluctuations also marked the period, both across sectors and across time. Growth in the tradable sectors exceeded 6.7 percent annually from ...
Inflation targeting in Brazil: shocks, backward-looking prices, and IMF conditionality
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 ...
Stabilization, persistence, and inflationary convergence: a comparative analysis
The role of inflationary persistence has become a recurrent theme in discussions on stabilization programs (Fischer, 1986). This has particularly been the case in recent debates on the merits of exchange-rate-based stabilization plans. Some authors claim that anti-inflationary programs based on ...
Empalme de series anuales y trimestrales del PIB
El principal objetivo de esta nota es presentar los métodos y resultados del empalme, en base 1996, de las series de PIB y gasto calculadas en bases 1986 y 1996. Con el propósito de poner a disposición de los usuarios series comparables para un periodo más extenso, en esta ocasión se presenta una ...
Boletín mensual
Esta publicación, creada en enero de 1928, contiene estadísticas de los principales indicadores de actividad y empleo, información monetaria y financiera, precios y salarios, exportaciones e importaciones, balanza comercial, balanza de pagos, reservas internacionales, inversión extranjera, inversión ...
Monetary policy: rules and transmission mechanisms
Monetary policy must consider the bidirectional relationship between the economy and its central bank. It should therefore address two essential questions: first, how changes in the economy induce a reaction by the central bank, and second, how these policy changes are in turn transmitted to the ...
Síntesis estadística de Chile 2008-2012
Esta publicación se edita en forma anual e incluye diversos antecedentes estadísticos económicos y sociales del país de los últimos cinco años, relacionados con las áreas de cuentas nacionales, comercio exterior, precios, finanzas públicas, agricultura, minería e industria, y otras informaciones ...