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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A central dimension of globalization is the world trend toward larger trade and financial openness, observed in most industrial and developing economies. Openness increases the integration of world goods and capital markets, contributing to potential gains in growth and welfare. However, increased ...

Economic policies in emerging-market economies (EMEs) are shaped by the structural features and policy challenges of countries on their road to development. Convergence toward income levels of advanced countries is a difficult and bumpy road—it is even uncertain if and when most developing countries ...

Vittorio Corbo is one of Latin America’s outstanding economists and like some of his peers in the region his contributions and his influence includes academia but goes well beyond academia. While academic economists in developed countries tend to focus more narrowly on research and teaching the diversity ...

Professor Vittorio Corbo in whose honor this conference is organized has an outstanding academic and professional career that spans teaching research policy making and advice provided to the private sector international institutions and governments. In the latter capacity of government advisor he ...

The development of general equilibrium models (GEMs) goes back a long way in economics, both at a theoretical level and as a tool for empirical analysis. General equilibrium theory and modeling have proved to be relevant and useful for understanding economic interactions between markets and agents in ...

Inflation targeting is the new kid on the block of monetary regimes. Since New Zealand and Chile first adopted the regime in 1990, a growing number of industrial and developing countries have followed suit, anchoring their monetary policy to explicit targets for inflation.

La tolerancia a cierta volatilidad en la tasa de inflación lleva a que aquellos países que tienen metas de inflación diseñen su política monetaria de modo que refleje flexibilidad en cuatro dimensiones: el índice de precios para el cual se define la meta, el ancho del rango meta, el punto medio del ...

The emergence of inflation targeting over the last ten years represents an exciting development in central banks' approach to the conduct of monetary policy. After initial adoption by New Zealand in 1990, a growing number of central banks in industrial and emerging economies have opted for inflation ...

This paper explores Chile’s macroeconomic dynamics with the help of a general equilibrium model parameterized for the Chilean economy. The model is based on microanalytic foundations, and its basic relations are derived from intertemporal optimization by a group of forward-looking agents endowed with ...

Todo banco central debe tomar sus decisiones de política en medio de un escenario incierto, basándose en su conocimiento imperfecto y cambiante sobre la economía. Aunque la investigación sobre política monetaria con incertidumbre y aprendizaje ha encontrado pocos resultados generales, una lección ...

Esta breve revisión hace un recorrido por la literatura reciente sobre política monetaria bajo metas de inflación y presenta nuevos resultados analíticos y estudios empíricos en la materia. Se examinan seis áreas centrales de la investigación previa: puesta en práctica y optimalidad de los principales ...

La elección sobre mantener una moneda nacional pasa por comparar los beneficios de la flexibilidad macroeconómica de un tipo de cambio flotante y una política monetaria autónoma, y los beneficios microeconómicos de integrarse a una unión monetaria o adoptar una moneda extranjera. Este trabajo analiza ...

Las reformas a las instituciones fiscales y las reglas fiscales persiguen diversos objetivos: fortalecer la solvencia y la sostenibilidad fiscal contribuir a la estabilización macroeconómica y estimular la resiliencia frente a la corrupción estatal y el cabildeo del sector privado. Estos objectivos ...

In recent years, the design of monetary policy has focused on gaps—the output gap, the interest rate gap, and the unemployment rate gap have all played a role in policy discussions. Standard models used for policy analysis are either specified in terms of such gaps or imply important roles for these ...

Las tasas de ahorro varían ampliamente en el mundo: en promedio, el este de Asia ahorra sobre 30% del ingreso nacional bruto disponible (INBD), mientras que África del sub-Sahara ahorra menos de 15%. Es más, las diferencias regionales han ido aumentando: durante las últimas tres décadas las tasas de ...

La notable alza de las tasas de ahorro privado y público desde comienzos de los años 80 en Chile ha despertado considerable interés. Este interés se ha reflejado tanto en discusiones de política económica como en trabajos académicos. Entre ellos, Morandé (1998) y Agosín (1999) se proponen explicar lo ...

Indexation policies and practices are common in many markets and economies. In most cases, price adjustment mechanisms arise in private contracts as a consequence of high and pervasive inflation. Sometimes governments also play an important role in promoting the use of indexation in their issues of ...