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OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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10-Oct-2008

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated continuously) - Composite leading indicators (CLIs) are presented in two different forms. They are the trend restored CLIs and the annualised 6-month rate of changes of CLIs.

FDI from OECD countries jumps 50% in 2007 but set to fall in 2008

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24-Jun-2008

Foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from OECD countries in 2007 leapt to a record USD 1.82 trillion from USD 1.2 trillion in 2006 but are projected to fall sharply in 2008, according to estimates from the OECD.

OECD Economic Outlook No. 83 - Brazil

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04-Jun-2008

Summary of developments and projections for Brazil, taken from the latest OECD Economic Outlook.

Monetary policy and macroeconomic stability in Latin America: The cases of Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

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25-Apr-2008

Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero

Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero use a conventional New Keynesian model to empirically test whether adoption of inflation targeting in a flexible exchange rate regime has affected macroeconomic volatility in four Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.  

Brazil: Taming inflation expectations

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25-Apr-2008

Afonso Bevilaqua, Mário Mesquita and André Minella

Afonso Bevilaqua, Mário Mesquita and André Minella discuss the conduct of monetary policy in Brazil. Their econometric analysis underscores the critical role played by the inflation targets as “attractors” for expectations.

Monetary policies and inflation targeting in emerging economies: Executive Summary

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25-Apr-2008

Monetary policies and inflation targeting in emerging economies: Executive Summary. Several emerging-market economies have adopted inflation targeting as their institutional framework for conducting monetary policy.

Monetary policies and inflation targeting in emerging economies

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25-Apr-2008

Several emerging-market economies have adopted inflation targeting as their institutional framework for conducting monetary policy. This volume focuses on the experiences of Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey.

Interdependencies between monetary policy and foreign-exchange intervention under inflation targeting: The case of Brazil and the Czech Republic

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30-Jan-2008

Jean-Yves Gnabo, Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero

This paper uses a friction model to estimate intervention reaction functions and the associated marginal effects for Brazil and the Czech Republic since adoption of inflation targeting in these countries in 1999 and 1998, respectively.

Monetary policymaking and inflation expectations: the experiences of Latin America

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19-Mar-2007

Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero

Background document for the seminar on monetary policy in emerging markets organised by the Economics Department jointly with the Bank of England’s Centre for Central Bank Studies on 28 February 2007.

Seminar: Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets

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19-Mar-2007

The Economics Department organized jointly with the Bank of England’s Centre for Central Bank Studies on 28 February 2007 a seminar on challenges for monetary policymaking in emerging-market economies.