Las autoridades monetarias de países tanto desarrollados como en desarrollo tienen, como uno de sus principales objetivos, lograr la estabilidad de precios. Para alcanzar este objetivo este logro, muchos bancos centrales han adoptado formalmente un esquema de metas de inflación (MI). Bajo MI, el banco ...

To what extent are inflation expectations of public agents anchored to the Central Bank of Chile’s (CBC) inflation target? In this note, I perform several econometric testing procedures in an attempt to answer this question. Expectations’ anchoring is understood as another central bank instrument, in ...

The international financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008- 09 called for a range of significant policy measures by central banks beyond aggressive interest rate cuts. Measures have ranged from improving international coordination to purchasing local private loan portfolios and direct intervention ...

Large negative aggregate demand shocks can drive down an economy’s equilibrium real interest rate and if the central bank is committed to stabilizing inflation monetary policy may be hampered by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates –the economy may be in a 'liquidity trap.' The policy dilemma ...

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 ...

Los bancos centrales suelen preferir tasas de interés de largo plazo como meta o como diagnóstico de política. Este artículo describe dos episodios históricos en que esto ha sucedido —Estados Unidos en 1942-51 y el Reino Unido en la década de 1960— y utiliza un modelo de dinámica inflacionaria para ...