Is Inflation Targeting Still On Target?

Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco

No 18570, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: E52 E58 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11
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Published as Is Inflation Targeting Still on Target? The Recent Experience of Latin America† Luis Felipe Céspedes1,*, Roberto Chang2 andAndrés Velasco3 Article first published online: 27 AUG 2014 DOI: 10.1111/infi.12047 International Finance Volume 17, Issue 2, pages 185–208, Summer 2014

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