This paper investigates banking system instability vis-à-vis the day-to-day interbank market and monetary policy effectiveness in the Dominican Republic. The analysis reveals a negative relationship among excess banking system reserves and the interbank interest rate, and shows that in crisis...

This paper studies the role of monetary and open economy indicators in inflation targeting (IT) economies through the analysis of a nested Phillips curve/ P-star model for Chile and Mexico. For Chile a real money gap and a money growth indicator are found to be relevant in predicting deviations...

The paper models money demand in the Dominican Republic using a novel, automatic general-to-specific, econometric technology - PcGets. The study finds economically sensible long run relations for real M1 and M2. Likewise, meaningful short run money demand functions are estimated. Remarkably, the...