Este artículo analiza la reforma institucional de la política monetaria en la América Latina desde principios del decenio de los noventa. Afirma que el fortalecimiento de la independencia legal de los bancos centrales, junto con las políticas macroeconómicas, ayudó a disminuir la...

This paper provides a brief historical journey of central banking in Latin America to shed light on the debate about monetary policy in the post-global financial crisis period. The paper distinguishes three periods in Latin America’s central bank history: the early years, when central banks...

This paper reviews the nature of central bank involvement in 26 episodes of financial disturbance and crises in Latin America from the mid-1990s onwards. It finds that, except in a handful of cases, large amounts of central bank money were used to cope with large and small crises alike. Pouring...