We combine the ideas of the trimmed mean and the Edgeworth index to construct an alternative measure of core inflation named 'Trim of Most Volatile Components (TMVC)'. At each point of time, this measure trims away the components of the price index that have been most volatile in the recent...

The significant reduction of the monetary policy rate (MPR) during 2009 has offset the rise in lending rates caused by increased uncertainty in the country and abroad. This paper comes to this conclusion after examining the evolution of interest rates of consumer and commercial loans in order to...

In this paper we analyze the contribution of international measures of inflation to predict local ones. To that end, we consider the set of current thirty one OECD economies for which inflation data is available at a monthly frequency. By considering this set of countries, a span of time...

We examine consumption and commercial lending rates evolution, identifying the main determinants of their movements. Our objective is to distinguish effects related to monetary policy rate from those due to higher risk; this is done through counterfactual simulations around relevant variables....

En este trabajo se presenta el empalme de las series a nivel de subclases del Índice de Precios al Consumidor (IPC) de Chile, para el período que va desde abril-1989 hasta diciembre-2008. La metodología ocupada es la misma que utiliza el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) para obtener...