Policymakers have long understood that if fiscal policy runs amuck and monetary policy is forced to raise seigniorage revenues big inflations result. Latin American policymakers understand this outcome better than most. This message is implicit in Cagan’s (1956) initial study of hyperinflation and the ...

Policymarkers and the academic community have reached an increasing consensus during the last two decades: the primary objective of monetary policy should be to control inflation (see, for example, King, 1999). A less settled issue is the appropriate role of the central bank regarding other, secondary ...

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 ...

Following the influential work of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005) and Smets and Wouters (2003), many central banks are building and estimating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with nominal rigidities and are using them for policy analysis. This new generation of sticky ...

En el pasado, se esperaba que los bancos centrales —por ley, costumbre, o ambas— usaran sus instrumentos de política para lograr múltiples objetivos, como alto crecimiento y empleo, financiamiento para el Fisco y solución de problemas de balanza de pagos. Hoy gozan de sustancialmente más independencia, ...

Inflation targeting has become an increasingly popular approach to the conduct of monetary policy worldwide since the early 1990s. Most of the countries that have adopted inflation targeting judge the experiment favorably, at least thus far. In many countries, the adoption of inflation targeting has ...

This paper considers whether issues regarding liquidity trap or zero lower bound phenomena substantially affect the case for inflation targeting, in comparison with other possible strategies for conducting monetary policy. It examines both theoretical and empirical issues and, in the latter case, ...

Inflation targeting was first introduced in 1990, in New Zealand. Since then it has been adopted by more than twenty countries. This period of fifteen years has seen major progress in practical monetary policy. In particular, the practice of inflation targeting has led to a more systematic and consistent ...

La estructura de tasas de interés permite recoger en tiempo real expectativas de agentes del mercado respecto de variables claves para la economía: movimientos futuros de la tasa de política monetaria y expectativas de inflación al horizonte de política monetaria, entre otras. El objetivo de este ...

La cuarta conferencia anual del Banco Central, realizada los días 30 de noviembre y 1 de diciembre del 2000, celebró 10 años de metas de inflación en Chile y el mundo, enmarcándose, además, en la conmemoración del 75° aniversario de la fundación del Banco Central de Chile. Como en años anteriores, la ...