Is Inflation Targeting Still On Target? / Luis Felipe Céspedes, Roberto Chang, Andrés Velasco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Céspedes, Luis Felipe.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Chang, Roberto.

Velasco, Andrés.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18570.

NBER working paper series no. w18570

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2012.

Summary:

This paper reviews the recent experience of a half-dozen Latin American inflation-targeting (IT) nations. We document repeated and large deviations from the standard IT framework: exchange market interventions have been lasting and widespread; the real exchange rate has often become a target of policy, though this target is seldom made explicit; a range of other non-conventional policy tools, especially changes in reserve requirements but occasionally also taxes or restrictions on international capital movements, also came into common use. As in developed nations, during the 2008-2009 crisis issues of liquidity provision took center stage. We also attempt a first evaluation of the emerging modified framework of monetary policy. In general terms, the new approach seems to have been effective, at the very least since the region weathered the crisis reasonably well. But also, and perhaps more importantly, many questions remain about the desirability of non-conventional monetary policies in Latin America.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2012.