Banco Central de Chile
The Central Bank of Chile, in accordance with its permanent process of adapting to new challenges and trends, has developed a new family of banknotes, using the most advanced technology available to enhance the traditional public confidence on the Chilean banknotes.
Latest News
The Financial Accelerator Under Learning and The Role of Monetary Policy
Working Paper N° 590. Authors : Rodrigo Caputo, Juan Pablo Medina, Claudio Soto.
Published: August 18, 2010
Press Release
In its monthly monetary policy meeting, the Board of the Central Bank of Chile decided to raise the monetary policy interest rate by 50 basis points to 2.0 (annual).
Published: August 12, 2010
Working Papers
N° 589 Conventional Calibration Versus EDF Calibration. Author: J. Felipe Córdova
Published: July 29, 2010
The Role of Central Banks after the Financial Crisis
Economic Policy Paper N°36. Author: José De Gregorio
Published: July 27, 2010
Working Papers
N° 588 Nowcasting With Google Trends in an Emerging Market. Author: Yan Carrière-Swallow; Felipe Labbé.
N° 587 Inflation Targeting in Financially Stable Economies: Has it been Flexible Enough?. Author: Mauricio Calani; Kevin Cowan; Pablo García S.
Published: July 20, 2010
Working Papers
N° 586 Heterodox Central Banking. Author: Luis Felipe Céspedes; Roberto Chang; Javier García-Cicco.
Published: July 8, 2010
Working Papers
N° 585 Recessions and Financial Disruptions in Emerging Markets: A Bird´s Eye View. Autor: Stijn Claessens; M. Ayhan Kose; Marco E. Terrones.
N° 584 The Role of Labor Markets in Structural Change. Autor: Miguel Ricaurte
Published: July 5, 2010
Current Highlights
Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Performance
Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile. October 21–22, 2010. Santiago, Chile.
RFP Open Markets Operation System SOMA
We will receive Presentation of Offers until Wednesday 11 august 2010
The Central Bank of Chile is currently engaged in the process of selecting a system for managing the open market operations, standing facilities and other financial operations carried out by the National Money Desk. We seek a World Class solution to best satisfy the characteristics and specific needs of the business. This process is directed solely at those firms that were pre-selected under the RFI Outright Open Market Operations System process, whose outcome was published in our website on 14 July 2009
Clarifications and Responses to Queries
Clarifications and Responses to Queries 2nd
The Central Bank of Chile officializes its Acquisitions and Contracting Policy.
Under its comprehensive transparency guidelines, the Central Bank of Chile publishes its Acquisitions and Contracting Policy, which is embodied in a set of ethical values and principles whose objective is to safeguard the efficient use of its assets and be accountable to the public in regards to the rational utilization of the budgetary resources allocated to its management as an autonomous entity.
Management of Foreign Exchange Reserves
This section provides information on the Central Bank of Chile’s management of foreign exchange reserves.
Monetary Policy Under Inflation Targeting
Series on Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies. Volume XI. Edited by Frederic S. Mishkin, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel.
Indicators
Values at 2 , September , 2010
| CPI-Indexed Unit of Account (UF) | 21.326,11 |
| UTM (September) | 37.454,00 |
| Observed Dollar | 498,15 |
| Euro | 637,35 |
| TCM (02/01/1998=100) | 99,12 |
last publications
Central Bank of Chile 1925-1964, Institutional History
Volume 14: Central Banking Series
Published: July, 2010