By examining the reaction functions of the Central Banks of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (LATAM-5) over the period 2002-2019, this article explores the degree to which the adoption of inflation targeting regimes allowed these economies to have greater room of manouvre in conducting...

This work examines the difficulties and formidable challenges faced by monetary authorities to control the behavior of monetary aggregates in an open economy dependent of an exportable natural resource such as Venezuela. The work not only introduces analytical arguments but also provides some...

During the last decade, a new consensus has emerged among economists with respect to the way in which monetary policy should be conducted. According to this view, monetary policy should be focused in order to achieve a given inflation target. However, the

This note presents the arguments for and against the move from a monetary policy interest rate indexed to past inflation to a rate set in pesos (nominal) that took place in August 2001. The debate within the Central Bank was long and at sometimes hot, and

During the last years, Mexico has registered relatively large output falls. The business cycle accounting method of Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan (2007) is applied to the two most recent recessions in Mexico (including the “Tequila crisis”) in order to understand what are the most important...

Artículo de revista ; De acuerdo con la Encuesta sobre Préstamos Bancarios, durante el cuarto trimestre de 2019 se produjo en España, en todas las modalidades, un ligero endurecimiento de los criterios de concesión, mientras que en la Unión Económica y Monetaria (UEM) este solo afectó a...

Incluye referencias bibliográficas ; Tras casi seis años con los tipos de intervención situados en niveles cercanos a cero y con numerosos estímulos no convencionales todavía en vigor, en 2014 ya se percibe la proximidad de la normalización monetaria en las economías en las que, como en...

Este documento ocasional recoge dos textos que el autor ha publicado recientemente en memoria de Luis Ángel Rojo, cuya vida profesional estuvo estrechamente vinculada al Banco de España y que falleció en mayo de 2011. El primer artículo es la contribución del autor a un libro colectivo, que...