Almost four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the monetary policy stance in most advanced economies remains extraordinarily loose, with policy rates close to zero and a number of non-conventional stimuli still in place. The resulting prominence of monetary policy responds, first, to...

Ante un período muy prolongado de baja inflación, el Banco de Japón ha ido modificando su estrategia de política monetaria en las dos últimas décadas y ha sido pionero en la introducción de medidas no convencionales: desde reducir los tipos de interés oficiales a cero y, más...

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...

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

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...