Winkelried, Diego; Gutierrez, José Enrique - Banco Central de Reserva del Perú - 2012
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) has been targeting inflation for more than a decade, using Lima’s inflation as … the operational measure. An alternative indicator is countrywide inflation, whose quality and real-time availability have … improved substantially lately. Hence, given these two somehow competing measures of inflation, two interesting policy questions …