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... Expected-Inflation Augmented Taylor Rule 30 5. NRIR: General Equilibrium Model 31 6. Latin America: Interest and Output Gap 32 7. Latin America: Interest Gap and Economic Growth 33 8. Latin America: ... Garcia-Escibano, and M. Vera Martin, 2012, “Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments inLatin America, ” Working Paper No. 12/142 (Washington: International ... Output, Interest, and Inflation Gaps 34 9. Model and IMF Desk’s Output Gap Estimations 35 4 I. INTRODUCTION An increasing number of Latin American countries have been recently strengthening...