Spanish Abstract: La mayor parte de la evidencia empírica sobre el efecto de Fisher o la hipótesis de Fisher sostiene que la relación entre la tasa de inflación y la tasa de interés nominal debe ser igual a uno. Este artículo analiza la relación entre la tasa de interés nominal y la tasa...

The aim of this study is to gather empirical evidence to discern theimpact of real exchange rate on the Colombian economy during 1990to 2002. The problem when you try to find this impact is the estimationof the real exchange rate of equilibrium, the one that is consistentwhit the simultaneous...

This paper focuses on modelling the short-term interest rate. We estimate and compare different conditional heteroskedasticity models which are divided into three groups: (1) the Levels models; (2) the GARCH models; and (3) the Mixed models which take into account the effects in both (1) and...

In this paper, we discuss the management of monetary policy of the Latin American central banks that have fully established inflation targeting. An optimal monetary rule is estimated for these economies using the Generalized Method of Moments. This analysis allows us to conclude that these...

This document studies the recent evolution of the break-even-inflation implicit in the yields of long-term financial instruments in Mexico. In particular, it analyzes the dynamics of its main components: the long-run inflation expectation and the inflationary risk premium, which are estimated by...

After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, in September 2008, there was huge stress in the financial markets. In the money markets, the Eurosystem had to adopt measures providing liquidity to banks in order to avoid the collapse of the interbank market. In this work we analyze the changes in the...

After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, in September 2008, there was huge stress in the financial markets. In the money markets, the Eurosystem had to adopt measures providing liquidity to banks in order to avoid the collapse of the interbank market. In this work we analyze the changes in the...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo, analizamos la gestión de la política monetaria de los bancos centrales (BC) de América Latina que han establecido un esquema pleno de objetivos de inflación. A partir de la estimación de una regla óptima de política monetaria, utilizando el Método...

English Abstract: Faced with a very prolonged period of low inflation, the Bank of Japan has been modifying its monetary policy strategy over the last two decades, pioneering the use of non-standard measures: it reduced policy interest rates to zero and, more recently, to negative levels, and...