Policy options for protecting Mexico's economy from volatility in oil revenues without eliminating the benefits from rising prices include a stablilizaton fund and hedging strategies on international markets. A stabilization fund and hedging strategies can complement each other, the fund working...

June 2000 - A method for forecasting growth cycles in economic activity (measured as total industrial production), as applied to Lithuania. Everhart and Duval-Hernandez present a method for forecasting growth cycles in economic activity, measured as total industrial production. They construct a...

We estimate a small-scale macro model for the Mexican economy under the New Keynesian (NK) framework and alternative interest rate rules for Mexico. With these results we evaluate the performance of the Bank of Mexico against a set of optimality principles derived in the NK literature. Our...