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Inflation targeting under political pressure
Historically, many emerging economies, particularly in Latin America, battled against persistently high and volatile inflation. Today, emerging economies continue to experience higher inflation than developed ones, and their central banks deviate more frequently from inflation targets. These patterns ...
Measuring the effects of unconventional monetary policy on asset prices
On 16 December 2008 the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the federal funds rate—its traditional monetary policy instrument—to essentially zero in response to the most severe U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression. Because U.S. currency carries an interest ...
The effects of U.S. monetary policy on emerging market economies’ sovereign and corporate bond markets
The global environment for emerging market economy (EME) bond markets has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Local currency bond markets (LCBMs) have developed especially in EMEs with low inflation stronger institutions and well defined creditor rights (see Burger and Warnock 2003 2006 ...
Política monetaria y la enfermedad holandesa: rigidez de precios y de salarios
Mediante un modelo de economía pequeña y abierta, especializada en la producción de materias primas y que exhibe fricciones exógenas en la fijación de precios y salarios, estudiamos la respuesta óptima de la política monetaria y cambiaria tras un shock positivo (negativo) en el precio del producto ...
Monetary policy and dutch disease: the case of price and wage rigidity
From a theoretical point of view and as we will show the presence of both price and wage rigidities implies that to the extent that fiscal policy is unresponsive to shocks full price stability is not optimal. In this paper we study optimal monetary and exchange rate policy in a small open economy with ...
Medición de los efectos de la política monetaria no convencional sobre los precios de activos
Una versión adaptada de los métodos de Gürkaynak, Sack y Swanson (2005) se utiliza aquí para estimar dos dimensiones de política monetaria durante el período de piso cero de la tasa de interés en Estados Unidos entre el 2009 y el 2015. Se muestra que, tras una rotación adecuada, estas dos dimensiones ...
Under what conditions can inflation targeting be adopted? The experience of emerging markets
Inflation targeting has become an increasingly popular monetary policy strategy, with 21 countries (8 industrial and 13 emerging market economies) targeting inflation and others considering following in their footsteps. Numerous studies of inflation targeting in industrial countries have been conducted, ...
Controles de capital y política cambiaria
El análisis empírico de este estudio sugiere que un objetivo de política cambiaria y el temor de un sobrecalentamiento de la economía nacional han sido los dos motivos más importantes para la (re) introducción y persistencia de los controles de capital de la última década. Los controles de capital se ...
Optimal inflation stabilization in a medium-scale macroeconomic model
What is the optimal monetary policy, and how can the central bank implement it? Both questions have been extensively studied, but always in the context of simple theoretical structures, which by design are limited in their ability to account for actual observed business cycle fluctuations. This article ...
Sobre los determinantes de la inflación y sus costos
Los determinantes de la inflación, sus costos y cómo evitarla, son temas que han ocupado un lugar importante en la discusión y el análisis económico, en especial en países con historia de alta inestabilidad. Este trabajo comienza con una revisión de las principales razones de por qué existe inflación, ...