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Does inflation targeting make a difference?
Inflation targeting is the new kid on the block of monetary regimes. Since New Zealand and Chile first adopted the regime in 1990, a growing number of industrial and developing countries have followed suit, anchoring their monetary policy to explicit targets for inflation.
Assessing the flexibility of the labor market in Chile: An international perspective
The unemployment rate in Chile averaged slightly over 6.5 percent throughout a ten-year period of high economic growth that ended in 1997. Unemployment then rose significantly at the outset of the Asian crisis, reaching levels near 11 percent. This broadly coincided with the implementation of a set ...
Household financial vulnerability
Household indebtedness in Chile has received considerable attention in recent years because of the financial deepening process underway in the economy. Although various macroeconomic indicators show significant increases in the last decade, there are few tools for evaluating the real vulnerability of ...
Optimal monetary policy in a small, open economy: a general-equilibrium analysis
The two central issues in monetary policy are separated by time horizon. The first relates to the short run: what is the appropriate monetary policy across the business cycle? The second relates to the long run: waht is the optimal long-run rate of inflation? This paper explores these classic issues ...
Indexation of public debt: analytical considerations and an application to the case of Brazil
Since the implementation of the Real Plan of 1994, the Brazilian economy has been in the process of reducing its degree of indexation. For more than three decades, Brazilian wages, rents, financial securities, and other contracts were indexed to the price level. The frequency of adjustment sometimes ...
Sovereign debt, volatility, and insurance
International capital inflows should, in theory, enable emerging market economies to reduce the volatility of private and public consumption in the presence of income volatility, in addition to allowing foreign savings to finance domestic capital accumulation. Access to international financial markets ...
Introducción: análisis empírico del ahorro en Chile
El ahorro es un viejo tema en Chile. Cada vez que se pone escaso el financiamiento externo, como ha ocurrido en forma recurrente a lo largo de nuestra historia, nos lamentamos de que no ahorramos lo suficiente como para sustentar una tasa de inversión razonable. Cada vez que hay abundante financiamiento ...
Una nota sobre el rol estabilizador del flujo de capitales
La teoría de economías competitivas bajo incertidumbre explica que, para individuos como Chile, con un perfil de ingresos creciente, pero a tasas altamente volátiles, inserto en un mundo de—en general— menor volatilidad, los beneficios de participar en mercados internacionales de capital pueden ...
Inflación de bienes y servicios
El INE publica habitualmente una descomposición de la serie de IPC entre bienes transables (IPCT) y no transables (IPCN). En los primeros meses del 2007 se produjo una discrepancia —al parecer, inusual— entre las tasas de inflación de estos dos componentes. Este documento tiene por fin mejorar la ...
Boletín mensual
Esta publicación, creada en enero de 1928, contiene estadísticas de los principales indicadores de actividad y empleo, información monetaria y financiera, precios y salarios, exportaciones e importaciones, balanza comercial, balanza de pagos, reservas internacionales, inversión extranjera, inversión ...