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Estabilidad financiera, política monetaria y banca central: una introducción
Este trabajo muestra un resumen integrado de los trabajos presentados en la duodécima Conferencia Anual del Banco Central de Chile 'Estabilidad Financiera, Política Monetaria y Banco Central', realizada en noviembre de 2008 y por aparecer compilados en un libro de próxima publicación. Los trabajos, ...
Macroeconomic and monetary policies from the eductive viewpoint
The quality of the coordination of expectations, a key issue for monetary policy, obtains from different, but interrelated, channels: both the credibility of the central bank intervention and the ability of decentralized agents to coordinate on a dynamical equilibrium matter. For both purposes, it is ...
Imperfect knowledge and the pitfalls of optimal control monetary policy
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 ...
A veinte años de la autonomía del Banco Central de Chile
En las últimas décadas, ha habido un significativo aumento en el número de bancos centrales independientes. En Chile, la autonomía se adoptó hace ya veinte años. En este documento se presentan las razones por las cuales es conveniente tener un banco central autónomo, y se discute la importancia de la ...
Sources of uncertainty in conducting monetary policy in Chile
Monetary policy is made in an environment of substantial uncertainty. Consequently, academic researchers have sought to formally demonstrate the implications of uncertainty, as well as the ways in which central banks can manage it. The theoretical literature on uncertainty distinguishes between three ...
Expectations, learning and monetary policy: an overview of recent research
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 ...
Monetary policy under uncertainty and learning: an overview
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 ...
Riesgo financiero y política monetaria: una aplicación para Chile
Este estudio construye un modelo para la vulnerabilidad del sector financiero y lo integra a un marco macroeconómico de uso común en el análisis de política monetaria. La principal interrogante que se espera responder con el modelo integrado es si los bancos centrales deberían o no incluir en forma ...
Inflation dynamics in a small open economy model under inflation targeting: some evidence from Chile
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 ...
Inflation target transparency and the macroeconomy
Over the last twenty years, many central banks have adopted increasing standards of transparency in communicating their monetary policy objectives, in particular regarding the explicit definition and quantification of their price stability objective or inflation target. One important benefit of increased ...