Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilization in Latin America

Latin America is a very important region of the globe, which has been buffeted by successive waves of economic instability within the last decades. These waves have caused several episodes of hyperinflation or near hyperinflation, and several currency and

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Rolf J. Langhammer Lucio Vinhas de Souza (Eds.)

Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilization in Latin America

Springer

Rolf J. Langhammer Institut fiir Weltwirtschaft Kiel D-24100Kiel langhammer @ ifw-kiel.de

Lucio Vinhas de Souza European Commission Avenue de Beaulieu, 1 B-1160, Brussels [email protected]

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Contents

Preface

ROLFLANGHAMMER

VII

LUCIO VINHAS DE SOUZA

Reducing Inflation through Inflation Targeting: The Mexican Experience Comment

How Has NAFTA Affected the Mexican Economy? Review and Evidence

MANUEL RAMOS-FR ANCIA

1

and ALBERTO TORRES PAULO SPRINGER DE FREITAS

30

M. AYHAN KOSE, GUY M.MEREDITH,

35

and CHRISTOPHER M . TOWE

Comment

LUCIO ViNHAS DE SOUZA

82

Argentina: Monetary Policy by Default

GEORGE T. MCCANDLESS

87

Comment

ALICIA GARCIA HERRERO

113

Do Exchange Rates Matter in Inflation Targeting Regimes? Evidence from a VAR Analysis for Poland and Chile

FELIX H AMMERM ANN

115

Comment

MARCEL FRATZSCHER

149

JORGE BRAGA DE MACEDO

153

Argentina and Brazil Risk: A "Eurocentric" Tale Comment

and MARTIN GRANDES GEORGE T. MCCANDLESS

173

VI

CONTENTS

Macroeconomic Shocks, Inflation, and Latin America's Labor Market Comment

Monetary Policy Rules in Emerging Market Economies: Issues and Evidence Comment

List of Contributors

ANA MARIA LOBOGUERRERO and UGO PANIZZA

177

ANSGARBELKE

198

M.S. MOHANTY

205

AND MARC KLAU RAINER SCHWEICKERT

246

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Preface Latin America is a very important region of the globe, which has been buffeted by successive waves of economic instability within the last decades. These waves have caused several episodes of hyperinflation or near hyperinflation, and several currency and financial crises, which, in certain moments, have even spilled over and affected other emerging markets. Th