Para los bancos centrales con régimen de inflación-objetivo modificar la tasa de interés de política monetaria como respuesta a la apreciación de la tasa cambio puede poner en riesgo el cumplimiento de la meta de inflación. Este trabajo determina qué tan importante ha sido el...

The article deals with the controversial issue of price harmonization practiced in the European Union. Therefore, we take into account the differences between national economies of member countries and the time difference of these economies in EU, a thing that imposes the establishment of...

Slovak Republic entered the ERM II in the end of 2005 whereby it came nearer to its strategic objective - joining the euro area. In this paper we try to answer two questions. Section 1 examines the features and risks of the EMU. Is EMU an optimum currency area and what is the OCA scorecard of...

During the late 1980s and early 1990s there was an interest in the academics literature in the role of transparency in monetary policy-making, which partly reflects the increased attention central banks devoted to communication issues in monetary policy practice. Most commonly, transparency...

En este trabajo se analiza la dinámica de la política monetaria sobre la actividad económica real y los precios en Colombia durante el período 2001:1-2009:12. Utilizandouna nueva metodología que combina los modelos VAR con los recientes desarrollos en el campo del análisis factorial...

En este trabajo se realiza un estudio de la inercia inflacionaria desde una perspectiva no estructural. La comprensión de este fenómeno es esencial para el manejo adecuado de la política monetaria pues una inflación persistente suele ser más difícil de controlar, especialmente ante shocks...

Monetary policy has changed in a number of ways in the last two decades. Along with other characteristics, modern monetary policy is forward-looking and today central banks, to maintain credibility, respond contemporaneously to structural shocks that might make inflation deviate from the target...