Central bank communication is widely recognised as crucial to the implementation of monetary policy. This communication should enhance a central bank’s management of the inflation expectations of the financial markets as well as the general public – the latter being a part of the central...

Colombia introduced a market-determined Nominal Exchange Rate (NER) with the US Dollar in 1991, after more than 20 years of controlled and multiple exchange rates. The first nine years the NER was set by an exchange rate band system, since 1999 the exchange rate is determined in a dirty float"...

Se extiende el modelo propuesto por Bernanke yMihov (1998) para el caso de una economía parcialmente dolarizada para estimar los efectos de la política monetaria en el Perú entre 1995 y 2009. Los resultados indican que la política monetaria en el Perú, a pesar de ser esta una economía...

This paper analyses nowcasting of manetary policy in an uncertain data environment.Nowcasting induces a relative asymmetry-a ratio of asymmetric preference for output nowcasting to the one for inflation in real-time.We propose a nowcasting Taylor rule to eliminate biases in the asymmetric...

Real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems often incorporate features designed to economise on liquidity. Such 'hybrid features' have the potential to mitigate the systemic impact of operational disruptions of participants. This paper simulates operational disruptions of participants, using data...

How do financial markets incorporate news? This paper argues that one piece of news not only has direct effects on asset prices and market volatility, but it can also alter the relative importance of other news. Studying the reaction of UK short-term interest rates to the Bank of England’s...

This article provides an overview of international experiences with the use of unconventional central bank instruments. The application of unconventional instruments may be justified by the existence of financial market friction, turmoil, failure or constraint, when instruments that change the...

Exploiting the heteroscedasticity of the changes in short-term and long-term interest rates and exchange rates around the FOMC announcement, we identify three structural monetary policy shocks. We eliminate the predictable part of the shocks and study their effects on financial variables and...

En este artículo se analizan tres tipos de modelos para determinar cuándo, en un esquema de inflación objetivo, el banco central (BC) debe utilizar los encajes como una herramienta de política monetaria óptima. En todos los casos, el BC busca minimizar una función objetivo que consta de...

La disminución de la tasa de inflación a niveles de un dígito, la reducción del riesgo país por la reducción en las tasas de los Títulos de deuda pública interna emitidos por el Estado (TES) y externa, Global y Yankees, y el desarrollo del mercado de capitales, han motivado la necesidad...