To evaluate whether transparency is beneficial, it is usual to assume that the central bank may choose one of two options, opacity versus truthful communication. However, the monetary policymaker may have incentives to misrepresent private information so as to reduce economic volatility by...

To date, there is still great controversy as to which exchange rate model should be used or which monetary channel should be considered, when measuring the effects of monetary policy. Since most of the literature relies on structural models to address identification problems, the validity of...

This paper propose indicator variables for the implementation of monetary policy in an inflation targeting regime. Using constant interest rate projections, the notion of a target-compatible interest rate is presented. This variable allows to extract some characteristics that the expected future...

Este documento describe la política monetaria aplicada en Colombia durante el período 1990-2007 antes de la crisis financiera mundial del presente siglo y analiza la incidencia que tuvo el resultado de dicha política sobre la tasa de paridad de intereses. Para probar la hipótesis de paridad...

Este documento investiga la importancia del canal del crédito bancario de la política monetaria en una economía abierta y pequeña como la colombiana. Usando el modelo de panel dinámico Método de Momentos Generalizados (MMG), propuesto por Arellano y Bover (1995), se estima una función de...

Abstract After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange...

Este trabajo busca determinar si la política monetaria puede proporcionar una explicación parcial a las diferencias que existen en el comportamiento de los ciclos económicos entre las regiones de Colombia, así como también establecer la importancia que tienen en la explicación de estas...

We investigate the relative roles of monetary policy and shocks in causing the Great Moderation, using indirect inference where a DSGE model is tested for its ability to mimic a VAR describing the data. A New Keynesian model with a Taylor Rule and one with the Optimal Timeless Rule are both...

The downturn in the world economy following the global banking crisis has left the Chinese economy relatively unscathed. This paper develops a model of the Chinese economy using a DSGE framework with a banking sector to shed light on this episode. It differs from other applications in the use of...

Prior research has documented that attention to inflation shifts when inflation surpasses a 3-4% threshold. In this note we examine how attention to inflation declines in episodes of disinflation. We show that for countries where inflation has returned to "normal" (pre-threshold) levels,...