Ana Aguilar

Former Regional Adviser

Ana Aguilar joined the BIS in January 2019 as a senior economist. Before that, she worked at the Bank of Mexico from 1998 to 2018, and for most of that time was in charge of monetary policy analysis as the Head of the Directorate of Economic Studies. She holds a PhD in economics (2004) from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been a lecturer at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM), from which she received her bachelor's degree in economics.

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BIS Working Paper No 1324 21 Jan 2026

The macro-financial impact of economic policy uncertainty in Latin America

This paper investigates the impact of domestic economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on macroeconomic and financial variables in…

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Ana Aguilar

Former Regional Adviser

All BIS publications (11)

The macro-financial impact of economic policy uncertainty in Latin America

Global inflation, inflation expectations and central banks in emerging markets

Evidence of nearshoring in the Americas?

Digital payments, informality and economic growth

Fiscal and monetary policy in emerging market economies: what are the risks and policy trade-offs?

Communication, monetary policy, and financial markets in Mexico

Monetary policy announcements and expectations: the case of Mexico

It takes two: Fiscal and monetary policy in Mexico

The NAIRU and informality in the Mexican labor market

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What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas

Are investment flows following the realignment in trade?

Do EME central banks have room to shape inflation expectations when global inflation surges?

Can digital payments boost growth and reduce informality?

Growth and productivity in the Americas

Monetary policy frameworks in Latin America: evolution, resilience and future challenges

Decomposition of long-run inflation expectation and the inflationary risk premium in Mexico

The anchoring of inflation expectations in Mexico in the presence of supply shocks

Heading into trouble: a comparison of the Latin American crises and the euro area's current crisis

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Welcome remarks and Session 1 - Evolving global financial conditions under heightened uncertainty

Session 3 - Tokenisation and the financial system

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