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Captial controls and foreign exchange policy
The question of whether capital controls should be part of the tool box for policymakers to deal with capital flows has become one of the central issues in the international economic policy debate. It was one of the key policy issues in the G20 under the French Presidency in 2011 and it has been covered ...
Exchange rate structural fiscal balance and copper price: a puzzle
Chile’s exchange rate shows a strong volatility to copper price fluctuations. This correlation is essentially because copper is our main export product therefore increases in the price of copper imply higher returns from copper export volumes both for private and the stateowned mining company Codelco. ...
Canales de transmisión de la tasa de interés y el tipo de cambio en economías dolarizadas y no dolarizadas: los casos de Chile, Nueva Zelanda, Perú y Uruguay
Este trabajo realiza un estudio comparativo de dos de los canales de transmisión de la política monetaria —la tasa de interés y el del tipo de cambio— entre dos economías que operan bajo un sistema establecido de metas de inflación, Chile y Nueva Zelanda, y dos economías cuyo régimen de metas de ...
Endogenous exchange-rate pass-through and self-validating exchange rate regimes
A long-standing question in open macroeconomics concerns the choice of currency denomination of nominal prices and contracts. A firm serving the export market may choose to set prices in its domestic currency in the currency of the market of destination or in a vehicle currency possibly indexing these ...
Proyecciones macroeconómicas en Chile: una aproximación estructural y bayesiana
En el presente trabajo se evalúa el desempeño de distintos modelos en la proyección de la tasa de inflación, la brecha del producto, el tipo de cambio real y la tasa de interés vinculada a la política monetaria. Los modelos lineales incluidos son de uso generalizado en los bancos centrales: un BVAR, ...
The carry trade in industrialized and emerging markets
The profitability of currency carry trades in and of itself is 'economic' evidence against the uncovered interest parity (UIP) condition. There is a wide variety of 'statistical' evidence against UIP. Yet the relationship between these two types of evidence and their implications for time variation ...
Pegs downward wage rigidity and unemployment: the role of financial structure
A characteristic of the current crisis in Europe is that countries in its periphery have found themselves increasingly cut off from international financial markets. In the present study we ask how such changes in the financial structure influence the welfare consequences of maintaining a fixed exchange ...
Desvíos de la hipótesis de paridad poder de compra y tipo de cambio real de equilibrio: Chile 1986-2011
El hecho de que no se cumpla la hipótesis de poder de paridad de compra (PPC) en el corto y mediano plazo es un puzle macroeconómico bastante discutido. La evidencia para la economía Chilena sugiere que solo en el muy largo plazo es posible encontrar evidencia a favor de la hipótesis de PPC. Las ...
Sterilized foreign exchange interventions under inflation targeting
Inflation targeting needs exchange rate flexibility. If the policy interest rate is geared to achieving the inflation target the central bank must be willing to accept the resulting exchange rate. Simply put if the central bank has both an inflation target and an exchange rate target the private sector ...
Trilemmas and tradeoffs: living with financial globalization
This paper evaluates the capacity of emerging market economies (EMEs) to moderate the domestic impact of global financial and monetary forces through their own monetary policies. I present the case that those EMEs able to exploit a flexible exchange rate are far better positioned than those that devote ...