Central America: inflation and stabilization in the crisis and post-crisis eras

Includes bibliography

Central bank independence and its relationship to inflation

Includes bibliography

Relative prices in Latin America in periods of low inflation and structural change

Includes bibliography

The competitive real exchange-rate regime, inflation and monetary policy

Includes bibliography

Inflation targeting works well in Latin America

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Financial market reaction to central bank monetary policy communications under an inflation- targeting regime: the case of Brazil

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Inflation and stabilization policies

Senala algunos de los problemas destacados en el analisis de las causas y consecuencias de la inflacion y el diseno de politicas de estabilizacion; y examina un caso particular, el Plan Austral aplicado en Argentina desde mediados de 1985.

Resolución 13: Inflación = Resolution 13: Inflation = Résolution 13: Inflation

El símbolo E/840/Rev.1 corresponde a la edición bilingüe inglés/francés publicada en 1953

Chameleonic inflation

We attempt to incorporate inflation into a string theory realization of the chameleon mechanism. Previously, it was found that the volume modulus, stabilized by the supersymmetric potential used by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde and Trivedi (KKLT) and with the right choice of parameters, can generically work as a chameleon. In this paper, we ask whether inflation can be realized in the same model. We find that we need a large extra dimensions set-up, as well as a semi-phenomenological deformation of the Kähler potential in the quantum region. We also find that an additional KKLT term is required so that there are now two pieces to the potential, one which drives inflation in the early universe, and one which is responsible for chameleon screening at late times. These two pieces of the potential are separated by a large flat desert in field space. The scalar field must dynamically traverse this desert between the end of inflation and today, and we find that this can indeed occur under the right conditions. © 2013 SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

Capital flows to Latin America: third quarter 2003

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Inflation and growth = Inflación y crecimiento: Resumen de la experiencia en América Latina

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Mexico: Combining monthly inflation predictions from surveys

We examine the problem of combining Mexican inflation predictions or projections provided by a biweekly survey of professional forecasters. Consumer price inflation in Mexico is measured twice a month. We consider several combining methods and advocate the use of dimension reduction techniques whose performance is compared with different benchmark methods, including the simplest average prediction. Missing values in the database are imputed by two different databased methods. The results obtained are basically robust to the choice of the imputation method. A preliminary analysis of the data was based on its panel data structure and showed the potential usefulness of using dimension reduction techniques to combine the experts' predictions. The main findings are: the first monthly predictions are best combined by way of the first principal component of the predictions available; the best second monthly prediction is obtained by calculating the median prediction and is more accurate than the first one.