The September surveys of expectations for inflation and growth conducted by Central Banks in the region show mixed … results with stable expectations for average growth and inflation across the eight countries. Growth expectations rose for …% for the current year. Inflation expectations fell in Guatemala, Paraguay and Peru and rose in Brazil, Chile and Mexico and …

this paper using subjective well-being survey data for Latin America we present evidence that both inflation and … inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In … unemployment reduce wellbeing; where the cost of inflation in terms of unemployment, hence the relative size of the weights in a …