Responses to commodity shocks only have ‘small’ impact on investment, paper finds

Flexible inflation-targeting frameworks and exchange rates are ‘essential’, but do not ‘majorly’ affect investment

Central Bank of Chile
Chile working paper says commodity shock responses have 'little' impact on investment
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Different monetary and fiscal policy reactions to commodity shocks do not "majorly" affect investment decisions in the commodity sector, a working paper published by the Central Bank of Chile suggests.

In Terms of trade shocks and investment in commodity-exporting economies, Jorge Fornero, Markus Kirchner and Andrés Yany use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model to study commodity price changes in Chile and implement "counterfactual policy exercises".

The exercises highlight the

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