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Cambios estructurales en la demanda por trabajo en Chile
La capacidad de generar empleo en la economía Chilena ha sido sorpresivamente lenta durante 2000 y 2001. A pesar de que el crecimiento del producto ha sido positivo desde agosto de 1999 la tasa de desempleo no ha disminuido como se esperaba. Una hipótesis que se ha levantado para explicar este fenómeno ...
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 ...
Stocks, flows, and valuation effects of foreign assets and liabilities: do they matter?
Globalization has changed the way countries interact along several dimensions. Financial integration and its underpinnings are probably among the most important. Although cross-border capital flows and external debt have been closely monitored, until recently little was known about the stocks of foreign ...
Sources of uncertainty in conducting monetary policy in Chile
Monetary policy is made in an environment of substantial uncertainty. Consequently, academic researchers have sought to formally demonstrate the implications of uncertainty, as well as the ways in which central banks can manage it. The theoretical literature on uncertainty distinguishes between three ...
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 ...
Premios soberanos: una aproximación factorial
Este trabajo estima y analiza factores idiosincrásicos y globales relevantes en la evolución de los premios o spreads soberanos de economías emergentes, con énfasis en el caso Chileno, para el período comprendido entre enero de 1998 y septiembre de 2005. Se encuentra que un número reducido de factores ...
A sticky-information general equilibrium model for policy analysis
Following on Keynes’s desire that economists be as useful as dentists, Lucas (1980) argues that this would amount to the following: “Our task, as I see it, is to write a FORTRAN program that will accept specific economic policy rules as ‘input’ and will generate as ‘output’ statistics describing the ...
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 ...
Securitización de hipotecas y desarrollo económico: un ensayo sobre la Caja Hipotecaria de Chile
Este ensayo recorre los primeros cincuenta años de la Caja de Crédito Hipotecario de Chile desde su creación en 1855. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, las operaciones crediticias de la Caja activaron la rápida expansión del regadío del Valle Central y posibilitaron el concomitante aumento de ...
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 ...