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The relationship between exchange rates and inflation targeting revisited
For decades, the exchange rate was at the center of macroeconomic policy debates in emerging markets. Many countries used the nominal exchange rate to bring down inflation, –others—mostly in Latin America—used the exchange rate to implicitly tax the export sector. Currency crises were common and usually ...
New keynesian models for Chile in the inflation-targeting period
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with nominal rigidities have become a popular tool for monetary policy analysis in recent years. The basic sticky price model has been enriched to include additional sources of nominal and real rigidities. These additional elements have been introduced ...
Inflation targeting versus price-path targeting: looking for improvements
The world’s central banks have undergone dramatic changes in the past fifteen years. Increases in independence and transparency have been coupled with a shift in focus. Price stability is now the paramount objective for the vast majority of modern central bankers. Combined, these changes in central ...
Does inflation targeting make a difference?
Since New Zealand adopted inflation targeting in 1990, a steadily growing number of industrial and emerging economies have explicitly adopted an inflation target as their nominal anchor. Eight industrial countries and thirteen emerging economies had full-fledged inflation targeting in place in early ...
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 ...
La compensación inflacionaria y sus componentes en Chile
de portafolio de los agentes económicos y, por lo tanto, en las tasas de interés que se observan en el mercado. Para esto se descomponen los determinantes, construyendo series de tiempo hasta hoy inexistentes. Posteriormente se estiman modelos de...
Shocks de petróleo e inflación, el caso de Chile y una muestra de países industriales
Este trabajo evalúa el impacto de una perturbación del petróleo sobre diversos componentes del índice de precios al consumidor para varios países, Chile incluido. Todos los países analizados muestran una respuesta significativa de la inflación total, de precios energéticos y no subyacente. También se ...