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Procyclicality of fiscal policy in emerging countries: the cycle is the trend
Economic research on fiscal policy has shown that while developed economies tend to run countercyclical fiscal policies Latin American countries have been characterized by procyclical policies. One of the explanations given to this phenomenon is that high external debt causes severe constraints on the ...
Domestic financial frictions and the transmission of foreign shocks in Chile
In the early 90’s a literature emerged emphasizing the role of external factors in explaining business cycle fluctuations in emerging countries. In particular changes in the terms of trade and world interest rates are generally viewed as the main external factors affecting these economies. Additionally ...
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 ...
Goverment size misallocation and the resource curse
Structural transformation is a reallocation of labor across sectors. In this paper I investigate the impact of structural transformation in an open economy on sectoral and aggregate productivity with a particular focus on the role of government. While there are potentially many sources of structural ...
Asset bubbles and sudden stops in a small open economy
One of the most striking features of the world economy over the last twenty-five years has been the sharp decline in the real interest rate from approximately 4% in the early 1990s to -1.5% in 2013 (figure 1). During this period there have been two waves of large capital inflows into emerging economies ...
Economía chilena
El objetivo de la revista Economía Chilena es ayudar a la divulgación de resultados de investigación, preferentemente aquella realizada en el Banco Central de Chile sobre la economía chilena o temas de importancia para ella, con significativo contenido empírico y/o de relevancia para la conducción de ...
A system for forecasting Chilean cash demand – the role of forecast combinations
Las autoridades monetarias tienen que planificar cuántas unidades de monedas y billetes necesitan comprar o producir para satisfacer las necesidades de la economía. Este documento presenta un sistema que contiene modelos de series de tiempo, así...
Non-ricardian aspects of fiscal policy in Chile
In this paper we examine the effects of government spending shocks in the Chilean economy. The study of the effects of such shocks in an emerging market economy is of special interest because of the potential presence of non-Ricardian households that is households that do not own any assets or have ...
Extracting information on economic activity from business and consumer surveys in an emerging economy (Chile)
El presente artículo discute la medida en que las encuestas de percepción a empresas y consumidores contienen información útil para predecir la actividad económica en Chile. Las encuestas utilizadas son las correspondientes a los índices IMCE e IPEC, para las empresas y consumidores, respectivamente. ...
Forward guidance in hte yield curve: short rates versis bond supply
Since late 2008 when short-term interest rates reached their zero lower bound central banks have been conducting monetary policy through two primary instruments: quantitative easing (QE) in which they buy long-term government bonds and other long-term securities and so-called forward guidance in which ...