We show that Peru's chronic inflation through the 1970s and 1980s was a result of the need for inflationary taxation in a regime of fiscal dominance of monetary policy. Hyperinflation occurred when further debt accumulation became unavailable, and a populist administration engaged in a...

Dollarisation intensifies the challenges posed to monetary policy by the pass-through of the exchange rate to domestic prices. These challenges become even greater when real transactions are dollarised, contaminating the formation of inflation expectations. This introduces non-linearities and...

This article has three goals. First, it describes the genesis of fiscal rules in Peru and its degree of compliance. Second, it estimates the effect of fiscal rules adoption on public investment. Last, it analyzes the impact of alternative fiscal rules on public investment and public debt...