Central bank economists and academic economists conducting research on the design of monetary policy have made significant advances in recent years. This work has led to a clearer understanding of the desirable properties of interest rate rules, the role of announcements and communication, and the ...

We study the role of the balance sheet channel of monetary policy in an environment in which credit plays an important role in the funding of new capital investment. Specifically, we ask whether the transmission mechanism of monetary policy is altered in an environment in which financial intermediation ...

In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...

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 ...

En agosto del 2001, el Banco Central de Chile 'nominalizó' su principal instrumento de política monetaria, reemplazando la tasa de política monetaria (TPM) indizada a la Unidad de Fomento, que usaba hasta la fecha, por una TPM nominal o denominada en pesos. Una serie de consecuencias, tanto en la ...

Numerosos estudios han revisado la transmisión de la política monetaria en Chile y su impacto sobre las variables agregadas de la economía. Sin embargo, puede que exista información valiosa en un análisis de efectos más específicos sobre los distintos componentes de la actividad económica. Por ello, ...

Este artículo analiza la reacción del tipo de cambio entre pesos Chilenos y dólares estadounidenses a las medidas de política monetaria que se adoptan en Chile y Estados Unidos. Se corre una regresión a la variación del tipo de cambio frente a un anuncio de política, sobre la variación de la tasa de ...

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 ...

In the twentieth century, Chile experienced most monetary and exchange rate regimes. Periods of fixed exchange rates usually ended in speculative attacks as a result of inconsistent policies or significant external shocks, generating serious real costs and larger exchange rate volatility.

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 ...