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Inflation Targeting in Colombia, 2002-2012

Urrutia, Miguel; Hofstetter, Marc; Hamann, Franz - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the...

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Inflation Targeting and Quantitative Tightening: Effects of Reserve Requirements in Peru

Armas, Adrián; Castillo, Paul; Vega, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper provides an overview of the reserve requirement measures undertaken by the Central Bank of Peru. It provides a rationale for the use of these instruments as well as empirical evidence of their effectiveness. In general, the results show that tightening reserve requirements has the...

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On the Credibility of Inflation Targeting Regimes in Latin America

Mariscal, Rodrigo; Powell, Andrew; Tavella, Pilar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and the expectation that the authorities will take appropriate actions if the target is breached....

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Central Bank Liquidity Management and "Unconventional" Monetary Policies

Kawamura, Enrique; García-Cicco, Javier - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper presents a small open economy model to analyze the role of central bank liquidity management in implementing … that the central bank uses to manage liquidity in the economy, which creates a role for the central bank balance sheet in … list of eligible collaterals accepted at the liquidity facilities operated by the central bank. These policies have been …

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Towards a "New" Inflation Targeting Framework: The Case of Uruguay

Sola, Martín; González-Rozada, Martin - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial frictions, this paper evaluates the effects of a rule that incorporates not only the interest rate but also the legal reserve requirements as instruments of monetary policy. It is found that reserve requirements can be used to...

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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation

Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al. (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...

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A Quantitative Exploration of the Opportunistic Approach to Disinflation

Aksoy, Yunus; Orphanides, Athanasios; Small, David; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper explores the quantitative implications of an approach to monetary policy that gained prominence in the United States during the 1990s. Proponents of this approach recommend that, when inflation is moderate but still above the long-run objective, the central bank should not move...

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Monetary Misconceptions: New and Old Paradigmata and Other Sad Tales

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Several recent studies imply that the response of national saving to fiscal policy is non-monotonic. In this paper, we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-monotonic responses arise: one refers to a sample of OECD countries, as in previous studies, and one to a...

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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Korea: Assessments and Policy Issues

Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper considers monetary and exchange rate policy in Korea since the financial crisis of 1997-98. The Bank of Korea has adopted much of the apparatus of inflation targeting, with a band for target inflation and a Monetary Policy Report to the National Assembly. This regime has served the...

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Monetary Policy and Uncertainty about the Natural Unemployment Rate

Wieland, Volker - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This Paper studies the optimal monetary policy in the presence of uncertainty about the...

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