Browsing by Author "Corbo, V"

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    Assessing inflation targeting after a decade of world experience
    (JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, 2001) Corbo, V; Landerretche, O; Schmidt Hebbel, K
    Ten years of inflation targeting worldwide provide valuable lessons. Inflation targeters (ITers) have been very successful in meeting their inflation targets (ITs). Industrial output sacrifice during inflation stabilization and industrial output volatility has frequently been lowered after IT adoption. ITers have consistently reduced inflation forecast errors after IT adoption. The influence of price and output shocks on the behaviour of inflation and output gaps has changed much more strongly among ITers than in non-targeting industrial countries in the course of the 1990s. IT has played a role in strengthening the effect of forward-loo king expectations on inflation, hence weakening the weight of past inflation inertia. Central bankers' aversion to inflation is, on average, not different among ITers in comparison to NITers but has risen in emerging-country ITers. ITers have gradually reaped a credibility gain, allowing them to achieve their targets with smaller changes in interest rates in the late 1990s than the changes that were required in the early 1990s. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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    Macroeconomic adjustment to capital inflows: Lessons from recent Latin American and East Asian experience
    (WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS, 1996) Corbo, V; Hernandez, L
    Capital inflows to some developing countries have increased sharply in recent years. Impelled by better economic prospects in those countries, lower international interest rates, and a slowdown of economic activity in the capital-exporting countries, the inflows have furnished financing much needed to increase the use of existing capacity and to stimulate investment. But capital inflows can bring with them their own problems. Typical macroeconomic repercussions have been appreciation of the real exchange rate, expansion of nontradables at the expense of tradables, larger trade deficits, and, in regimes with a fixed exchange rate, higher inflation and an accumulation of foreign reserves.