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La compensación inflacionaria y sus componentes en Chile
Este documento estudia los determinantes de los componentes de la compensación inflacionaria definida como la diferencia que existe entre las tasas de interés nominales e indexadas. Lo anterior permite evaluar cuánto inciden estos en las elecciones de portafolio de los agentes económicos y, por lo ...
Flexibilidad microeconómica en américa latina
En este artículo se caracteriza el grado de inflexibilidad microeconómica en varios países de América Latina, y se concluye que Brasil, Chile y Colombia son más flexibles que México y Venezuela. Ladiferencia se explica principalmente por el comportamiento de los establecimientos grandes, que seajustan ...
The sources of economic growth: an overview
The importance of economic growth cannot be overstated. Income growth is ssential for achieving economic, social, and even political development. Countries that grow strongly and for sustained periods of time are able to reduce their poverty levels significantly, strengthen their democratic and political ...
Heterogeneidad de la transmisión monetaria: efectos sectoriales y regionales
Numerosos estudios han revisado la transmisión de la política monetaria en Chile y su impacto sobre las variables agregadas de la economía. Sin embargo, puede que exista información valiosa en un análisis de efectos más específicos sobre los distintos componentes de la actividad económica. Por ello, ...
It's not factor accumulation: stylized facts and growth models
The central problem in understanding economic development and growth is not, in fact, to understand the process by which an economy raises its savings rate and increases the rate of physical capital accumulation. Many development practitioners and researchers continue to target capital accumulation ...
Desempleo y consumo en Chile
El artículo estudia empíricamente el efecto del desempleo sobre el consumo agregado de bienes habituales en Chile entre 1990 y 2002. Utilizando un modelo de corrección de errores se encuentra que el desempleo rezagado tiene un efecto negativo y estadísticamente significativo sobre el crecimiento del ...
On current account surpluses and the correction of global imbalances
The United States has run an increasingly large current account deficit over the last few years. J. P. Morgan forecasts that in 2007 the deficit will reach almost one trillion dollars, or 7 percent of GDP. This unprecedented situation has generated concern among analysts and policymakers. Many argue ...
Currency mismatches in chilean nonfinancial corporations
The potential financial vulnerability that can occur when private sector or government agents acquire high levels of foreign currency debt has been at the center of discussion since the financial crises that affected the countries of Southeast Asia in the late 1990s. To the extent that a mismatch is ...
Chile´s regional arrangements: the importance of market access and lowering the tariff to six percent
We define additive regionalism as the process of sequentially negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all significant trading partners. Chile is the country that has most clearly articulated a strategy of additive regionalism. The government of Chile has successfully concluded a free trade ...
Does inflation targeting make a difference?
Since New Zealand adopted inflation targeting in 1990, a steadily growing number of industrial and emerging economies have explicitly adopted an inflation target as their nominal anchor. Eight industrial countries and thirteen emerging economies had full-fledged inflation targeting in place in early ...