El presente trabajo realiza una evaluación empírica recursiva de la relación entre el crédito y el producto usando datos trimestrales de la economía peruana para el período 1992 – 2009. Dada la naturaleza de las series, el análisis econométrico se basa en la estimación de un modelo...

This paper shows how persistent world inflation shocks hitting a small open economy can re-weight the importance of domestic and foreign factors in the determination of prices. In particular, we study why a global disinflation environment may imply a weakening of the channels whereby domestic...

We study cross-country GDP losses due to financial crises in terms of frequency (number of loss events per period) and severity (loss per occurrence). We perform the Loss Distribution Approach (LDA) to estimate a multi-country aggregate GDP loss probability density function and the percentiles...

This paper analyzes the changes in the monetary policy transmission mechanism in Peru. A strong conclusion that emerges from this research is that both, the direct interest rate channel and the expectations channel have become more important in the recent years, especially after the Inflation...

Este trabajo revisa la evidencia existente sobre el impacto de la adopción del esquema de metas explícitas de inflación (MEI) sobre la dinámica de la inflación. En particular, se reporta la evaluación econométrica de Vega y Winkelried (2005) y se compara sus resultados con aquellos...

This paper provides an overview of the Reserve Requirements measures undertaken by the Central Bank of Peru. We provide a rationale for the use of these instruments as well as empirical evidence on their effectiveness. In general, the results show that a reserve requirement tightening has the...

This paper quantifies the dynamic macroeconomic effects derived from both; shocks to conventional monetary policy and shocks to reserve requirement ratios applied to bank deposits in Peru. The analysis tackles reserve requirements on domestic as well as foreign currency deposits. Structural...