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Monetary policy: rules and transmission mechanisms
Monetary policy must consider the bidirectional relationship between the economy and its central bank. It should therefore address two essential questions: first, how changes in the economy induce a reaction by the central bank, and second, how these policy changes are in turn transmitted to the ...
Acerca del nivel adecuado de las reservas internacionales: el caso de Chile
Bajo un régimen de tipo de cambio flexible, las reservas internacionales de un país contribuyen a reducir los riesgos de crisis de liquidez y permiten a la autoridad intervenir excepcionalmente en el mercado cambiario. Sin embargo, mantener reservas también es costoso. En este trabajo se discute una ...
Overoptimism boom-bust cycles and monetary policy in small open economies
In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...
A sticky-information general equilibrium model for policy analysis
Following on Keynes’s desire that economists be as useful as dentists, Lucas (1980) argues that this would amount to the following: “Our task, as I see it, is to write a FORTRAN program that will accept specific economic policy rules as ‘input’ and will generate as ‘output’ statistics describing the ...
Medidas alternativas de inflación subyacente
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, ...
Indexation, inflationary inertia, and the sacrifice coeficient
When inflation is chronic, firms develop indexation practices that automatically tie the growth of prices, wages, and other contracts to the performance of some comprehensive price index. The microeconomic advantages of indexation are evident and derive from the immunization of the relative price ...
A decade of inflation targeting in the world: what do we know and what do we need to know?
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 ...
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 ...
Ochenta años de historia del Banco Central de Chile
El Banco Central de Chile se creó en 1925, para 'dotar al país de una institución que estabilice la moneda y regule las tasas de intereses y descuentos, para evitar perturbaciones en el desenvolvimiento industrial y financiero de la Nación y fomentar su progreso económico' (Decreto Ley Nº 486, 22 de ...
Tipo de cambio real de equilibrio en Chile: enfoques alternativos
En el marco de política monetaria basado en metas de inflación y flotación cambiaria, interesa conocer el valor de equilibrio del tipo de cambio real (TCR). Este trabajo describe los modelos de determinación del TCR de equilibrio de uso regular en el BCCh. En particular, se discuten los modelos de ...