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Emerging economies with inflation targets (IT) face a dilemma between fulfilling the theoretical conditions of "strict …
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stable rates inflation in many countries in the nineties. Consequently, the main goal of this paper is to offer an overview … of the main policy issues arising in a low inflation environment and their practical relevance so as to identify the main …
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During the 1970s and early 1980s, Spain suffered high rates of inflation but inflation declined and by 1997 inflation … had fallen to approximately 2 percent. To fight inflation, Spain implemented austere monetary programs, joined the EMS in … 1989, enacted central bank autonomy in 1994, and introduced inflation targets in January 1995. Certainly, these and other …
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Political Science on June 4th. It starts by asking what factors have been behind the remarkable retreat of inflation that has …
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Empirical evidence shows that fixed exchange rates do not provide more fiscal discipline than flexible regimes, despite the fact that, in priciple, fixing the exchange rate imposes important restrictions on seignoriage revenues. A more detailed analysis of seignoriage allows to explain the...
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dynamics of inflation depend on real marginal costs and on a measure of resource underutilization. …
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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...
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We assess the impact on the credit supply to non-financial corporations of the two verylong-term refinancing operations (VLTROs) conducted by the Eurosystem in December 2011 and February 2012 for the case of Spain. To do so we use bank-firm level information from a sample of more than one...
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(foremost inflation targeting), and more transparent policy decisions bound by ex-ante rules and ex-post accountability. Central … American countries to converge to one-digit inflation rates and contributed to higher and more stable growth than in the past …
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The view that central banks must play a greater role in preserving financial stability has gained considerable ground in the aftermath of the crisis and macroprudential policy has become a central pillar to deal with financial stability. The policy frame of macroprudential policy, its toolbox...
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