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Monetary Policy in Chile: Did it Produce Changes in the Volatility Regime, 1990–2002?

In: Structure and Structural Change in the Chilean Economy

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  • Sergio Zúñiga

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A number of fundamental modifications in monetary policy were implemented in Chile beginning in the 1990s, among which included independent status for the Central Bank, establishment of an inflation targeting regime (IT),1 an important liberation of interest rates, and more recently the establishment of the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR). Before 1990, the mission of the Chilean Central Bank was quite limited. In effect, since 1976 monetary policy was linked to government financing, control of interest rates, and bank credit; up to 1982, a nominally fixed exchange rate existed, and until 1984 the bank was limited to supporting the banking system in the financial crises which occurred in the 1980s.

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  • Sergio Zúñiga, 2006. "Monetary Policy in Chile: Did it Produce Changes in the Volatility Regime, 1990–2002?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Patricio A. Aroca & Geoffrey J. D. Hewings (ed.), Structure and Structural Change in the Chilean Economy, chapter 6, pages 125-142, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23965-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230239654_6
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