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The chilean experience in completing markets with financial indexation
For a Chilean capital market participant, it may be hard to imagine a world without the indexation unit, the Unidad de Fomento (UF). Most market participants would probably agree that the UF played a central role in the creation of a local capital market and also that it has had a positive impact on ...
Financial intermediation and growth: causality and causes
Do better functioning financial intermediaries -financial intermediaries that are better at ameliorating information asymmetrics and facilitating transactions- exert a causal influence on economic growth? Providing evidence on causality has implications for policymakers and economists. For instance, ...
La nueva economía del crecimiento: ¿qué hemos aprendido en quince años?
El artículo de Paul Romer sobre retornos crecientes y crecimiento de largo plazo, publicado hace ya quince años, hizo resurgir la investigación sobre crecimiento económico. Desde entonces la literatura del crecimiento se ha expandido en forma vertiginosa y ha reorientado la investigación de muchas ...
Los desafíos del crecimiento económico: una visión general
Este artículo se enmarca dentro de la conferencia 'Los Desafíos del Crecimiento Económico' organizada por el Banco Central de Chile en noviembre del 2001. El trabajo sintetiza la evolución y el estado actual de la literatura económica sobre el crecimiento y discute de manera crítica los principales ...
Política cambiaria en Chile: el abandono de la banda y la experiencia de flotación
Como muchos otros países, en los últimos cuarenta años Chile ha experimentado virtualmente todos los sistemas cambiarios posibles, con la excepción de adoptar una moneda foránea. La búsqueda de una política cambiaria adecuada ha estado determinada, en parte, por los distintos objetivos que han tenido ...
Capital controls in Chile: were they effective?
Controls on international capital flows have no place in a world without policy distortions and markt failures. Capital controls can only be justified as second-best measures to compensate for nonremovable policy distortions, including inadequate regulation and supervision of the financial and corporate ...
Monetary policy in Latin America in the 1990s
For decades until the early 1990s, Latin America was the region of the world with the highest average level of inflation. High inflation was the cumulative result of a long history of activist economic policies based on a disregard for macroeconomic stability. These policies culminated in large ...
Japanese banking problems: implications for Southeast Asia
During the late 1980s, Japanese banks substantially increased their global presence. In part the expansion was undertaken to help service Japanese companies that were increasingly involved in foreign direct investment. However, this expansion also can be attibuted to Japan's positio as the world's ...
Overshootings and reversals: the role of monetary policy
Does tight monetary policy stabilize the currency after a collapse?. Does the effect of high interest rates on the exchange rate depend on the condition of the banking system? The East Asian crises and other recent currency crises have put these questions at the center of economic policymaking decisions.
Monetary policy functions and transmission mechanisms: an overview
Monetary policy comprises the rules and actions adopted by the central bank to achieve its objectives. In most countries the primary goal of monetary policy is price stability. However, the mandate of many central banks also encompasses other objectives, including attainment of fullemployment, domestic ...
Inflation targeting and the liquidity trap
This paper considers whether issues regarding liquidity trap or zero lower bound phenomena substantially affect the case for inflation targeting, in comparison with other possible strategies for conducting monetary policy. It examines both theoretical and empirical issues and, in the latter case, ...
The effects of business cycles on growth
This paper explores the links between business cycles and long-run growth. Although it is clear from a theoretical point of view that both of these phenomena are driven by the same macroeconomic variables, the interaction between economic fluctuations and growth has been largely ignored in the academic ...
Crecimiento económico en Chile: presente, pasado y futuro
El crecimiento económico ha sido tema clave durante las últimas dos décadas. Las considerables ventajas de los países que han logrado sostener tasas elevadas de crecimiento durante largos períodos, y que hoy disfrutan de niveles de ingreso destacados a nivel mundial, motiva a estudiar de qué manera ...
Síntesis monetaria y financiera 2001
Esta publicación contiene información anual sobre dinero, cuasidinero, emisión, multiplicadores monetarios, depósitos y colocaciones del sistema financiero y tasas de interés. Estos antecedentes se proporcionan tanto en términos de saldos promedios mensuales como de saldos a fin de mes.