Monetary policy during the global financial crisis of 2007-09: the case of Peru

In terms of the implications for emerging market economies, the recent global financial crisis has had two main stages. The first stage, between the last quarter of 2007 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, was characterised by important capital inflows and the second, postLehman, stage was associated with a rapid and severe deterioration of external conditions. The management of the crisis by emerging market central banks required, in both stages, a combination of conventional and unconventional monetary policy measures due to the need to preserve the monetary policy transmission mechanism. It is interesting to note that in several countries, including Peru, the sequence of monetary policy adoption began with the set of unconventional measures due to the weakening of the interest rate channel during the high uncertainty period in the last quarter of 2008.