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This paper deals with the financial statements of Central Banks. The starting point is the analysis of their balance sheets, which reveal their strong connections, on the one hand, with the National Treasuries; on the other hand, with the financial firms. The balance sheets reveal, besides the...
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We present a detailed survey of changes in the reserve requirement system in Brazil and analyze the system's main functions and goals during the period from 1994 to 2012. We identify four different subperiods with respect to the use of this policy tool. In the first subperiod, from july 1994 to...
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Given that several countries have adopted inflation targeting, and that the main objective of this regime is to …
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Inflation targeting and price-making in monetary economies: is it possible to conciliate growth with price stability …? - Recently a number of countries have adopted explicit inflation targets as a guide for policy since a numerical target is … attractive for anchoring inflation expectations. Monetary policy, under inflation targeting, is implemented grounded on handling …
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This paper tests two hypotheses for the overbidding behavior of the banks in the fixed rate tenders conducted by the European Central Bank from January 1999 until June 2000. One hypothesis attributes the overbidding to expectations of a future tightening of monetary policy, while the other...
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Monetary policy, inflation and economic growth: the influence of the monetary authority?s reputation upon the economy … The following paper aims to show that, although a monetary policy, which merely seeks to control inflation through an … interest rate rule (under inflation targeting), may reach such a goal, it will present a worst outcome whether compared to a …
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Este artigo pretende aferir se a política monetária do BCE em 1999:I-2007:II foi consistente com a que resultaria da aplicação das respectivas preferências à situação macroeconómica de Portugal. Começa-se por estimar os parâmetros da função-objectivo do BCE, com dados da Zona Euro...
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The main objective of this paper is to analyze if the adoption of inflation targeting implies changes in the behavior … fourteen countries that adopted explicit inflation targeting are shown. Furthermore, a particular analysis for the Brazilian … case through a VAR that considers the following variables: unemployment rate, Selic, inflation, industrial production, and …
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incorporate some elements of the Communication Theory can be helpful for this evaluation, what is done in this article as a …
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seeks to explain why the rate of Inflation during 2015 remained on the rise even though the monetary policy imposed by …
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