Both policymakers and economists increasingly accept that the main medium- to long-run goal of monetary policy is the pursuit of price stability, defined as maintaining a low and stable rate of inflation. A high and variable inflation rate is socially and economically costly.

Inflation targeting in an open economy insolves a number of complexities that do not arise with inflation targeting in a clises economy. One of these is that central banks in open economies have to decide how to repond to changes in the exchange rate.

Inflation targeting needs exchange rate flexibility. If the policy interest rate is geared to achieving the inflation target the central bank must be willing to accept the resulting exchange rate. Simply put if the central bank has both an inflation target and an exchange rate target the private sector ...

Este artículo investiga el traspaso del tipo de cambio a diferentes índices de precios en Chile. El análisis se lleva a cabo utilizando un modelo de vectores autorregresivos (VAR) con variables exógenas. Los modelos fueron estimados con datos mensuales para Chile entre enero de 1987 y diciembre del ...

One of the most popular pieces of wisdom in economic policy is the idea that fiscal policy is more effective in a fixed exchange rate regime or a currency union than in a flexible exchange rate regime. In this paper we revisit the theoretical foundations of the conventional wisdom on the relative ...

Fear of floating has recently come to be seen as one of the central de facto characteristics of exchange rate regimes in emerging markets, after first being identified by Calvo and Reinhart (2002). The interpretation of this phenomenon is still open to question. Does the optimal monetary regime for ...

De acuerdo con el paradigma convencional, la política fiscal es más efectiva bajo un régimen cambiario fijo que con tipo de cambio flexible. En este trabajo se reconsidera la transmisión de shocks al gasto de gobierno a través de estos regímenes dentro de un modelo neokeynesiano para una economía ...

For a small open economy, maintaining a stable exchange rate and moderate levels of inflation is often a goal of primary importance. At the same time, the profession has recognized the tight link between fiscal and monetary policies in determining inflation dynamics. Thus, the goal of a stable exchange ...