During the last decade, a new consensus has emerged among economists with respect to the way in which monetary policy should be conducted. According to this view, monetary policy should be focused in order to achieve a given inflation target. However, the

In September 2007, a serious financial crisis became evident in the developed countries, due to serious mistakes in economic policy. Even against their own ideology, governments have not spared measures to reduce its effects, have failed to contain it, and it advances towards a global recession...

La tesis central del presente ensayo es que un proceso exitoso de desarrollo capitalista nacional en el contexto de un mercado mundial caracterizado por la existencia de múltiples monedas nacionales y dividido en países desarrollados hegemónicos del Primer Mundo y países subdesarrollados...

Spanish Abstract: Los modelos dsge actuales tienen graves defectos, pero son sumamente mejorables y centrales para el futuro de la macroeconomía. Para mejorarlos debe volverse menos insulares, utilizado un conjunto mucho más amplio de investigaciones económicas. También deben volverse menos...

This document presents a Macroeconomic Consistency Model for a dollarized economy such as Ecuador. Based on a simply accounting framework that combined the social accounting matrix with the flow of funds, we integrate the different sectors of the economics through a matrix of income,...

English Abstract: The COVID-19 crisis has elicited an immediate and forceful economic policy response. With the height of the crisis behind us, the Governor has set out priority economic measures for the post-lockdown phase. He calls for the urgent launch of an ambitious, comprehensive,...

Annotated remarks made at the 50th Anniversary Conference “Fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales y efectividad de la política monetaria”, of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, February 2010. The paper lays out the importance of institutional strenthening (governance) as an...