Author/Editor: Luis Ignacio Jácome.

Release Date:March, 2015

This paper provides a brief historical journey of central banking in Latin America to shed light on the debate about monetary policy in the post-global financial crisis period. The paper more...

Author/Editor: Erlend Nier, Luis Ignacio Jácome, Jacek Osinski, Pamela Madrid.

Release Date:November, 2011

A number of countries are reviewing their institutional arrangements for financial stability to support the development of a macroprudential policy function. In some cases, this involves a rethink of more...

Author/Editor: Åke Lönnberg, Luis Ignacio Jácome.

Release Date:April, 2010

This paper identifies key aspects that countries willing to officially dollarize must necessarily address. Based on country experiences, it discusses the critical institutional bases that are more...

Author/Editor: Inci Ötker, David Vávra, Francisco F. Vazquez, Luis Ignacio Jácome, Karl Friedrich Habermeier, Kotaro Ishi, Alessandro Giustiniani, Turgut Kisinbay.

Release Date:January, 2009

This paper analyzes the monetary policy response to rising inflation in emerging and developing countries associated with the food and oil price shocks in 2007 and the first half of 2008. It reviews more...

Author/Editor: Luis Ignacio Jácome.

Release Date:January, 2004

This paper stresses three factors that amplified the 1990s financial crisis in Ecuador, namely institutional weaknesses, rigidities in public finances, and high financial dollarization. Institutional more...