The inflation targeting regime in place in Canada requires a clear understanding of the monetary policy transmission mechanism and a way to exploit knowledge of that mechanism in making policy decisions. This paper describes the Bank of Canada's current undestanding of the monetary policy transmission ...

The conduct of monetary policy in terms of interest rate or other rules has been extensively studied in recent research. This literature gives a central role to forecasts of future inflation and output, and the question of whether monetary policy should be forward- ooking has been subject to discussion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Entre las variables relevantes para evaluar el escenario internacional que enfrenta la economía chilena, se encuentran las perspectivas para los precios de los principales activos financieros internacionales. La evolución esperada de las tasas de política monetaria (TPM) de las economías desarrolladas ...

Monetary policies leave a fiscal footprint. When the central bank cuts the policy interest rate, this footprint comes through multiple channels: The demand for currency rises, so the central bank prints more banknotes to accommodate it, and this creates seignorage revenues. Inflation unexpectedly ...

Esta nota realiza un breve repaso a un debate que ha comenzado a ganar espacio en los últimos años, y que se relaciona con la eventual desaparición de una demanda por dinero físico, y las consecuencias que ello traería sobre la conducción de la política monetaria y la subsistencia de los bancos ...

El seguimiento de la tendencia inflacionaria subyacente de corto plazo es un elemento relevante para el diseño e implementación de la política monetaria en el marco de un esquema de metas de inflación. Por esta razón, la construcción de indicadores de inflación que representen la tendencia de la serie, ...

The financial crisis that started in 2007 brought the global economy to the brink and in many respects it is still unfolding especially in Europe. How to understand and deal with the crisis has naturally been the subject of fierce debates that continue today. However some consensus appears to be ...