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A critical view of inflation targeting: crises, limited sustainability and aggregate shocks
Inflation targeting has recently been adopted by the central banks of several advanced economies, including Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The policy is widely perceived as having been successful (see the discussions in Leiderman and Svensson, 1995, ...
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 ...
Inflation targeting under imperfect knowledge
A central tenet of inflation targeting is that establishing and maintaining well-anchored inflation expectations are essential. Well-anchored expectations enable inflation-targeting central banks to achieve stable output and employment in the short run, while ensuring price stability in the long run. ...
Monetary policy in Latin America in the 1990s
For decades until the early 1990s, Latin America was the region of the world with the highest average level of inflation. High inflation was the cumulative result of a long history of activist economic policies based on a disregard for macroeconomic stability. These policies culminated in large ...
Monetary policy functions and transmission mechanisms: an overview
Monetary policy comprises the rules and actions adopted by the central bank to achieve its objectives. In most countries the primary goal of monetary policy is price stability. However, the mandate of many central banks also encompasses other objectives, including attainment of fullemployment, domestic ...
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 ...
El primer quinquenio: el Banco Central bajo el régimen de padrón oro
El régimen de padrón oro estuvo vigente en Chile entre comienzos de 1926 y julio de 1931. Coincidió entonces con la apertura del Banco Central y se prolongó hasta la crisis económica y política que culminó en julio de 1931 cuando se suspendió la libre convertibilidad del peso y cayó el gobierno de ...
Profundización de las políticas intervencionistas: 1939-1945
Este capítulo cubre un período de la historia del Banco que coincidió con al menos cuatro circunstancias que identificaron marcadamente los contextos político y económico del país. En lo político destacó el inicio de la era que tuvo como eje al partido Radical con dos gobiernos que no terminaron sus ...
Balance de cuarenta años: objetivos funciones autonomía y responsabilidades
En este balance final se hará un resumen de la evolución del Banco desde el punto de vista de algunos aspectos o atributos que son particularmente interesantes para apreciar las fortalezas y debilidades de su trayectoria institucional. No se intenta probar ninguna hipótesis sino básicamente destacar ...