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Spillovers to emerging markets during global financial crisis
At the heart of the debate on how the 2007–09 global financial crisis spread from the United States to the rest of the world lies the global banks. Using a large sample composed of advanced and emerging economies since the 1980s Abiad and others (2013) show that the effect of financial linkages on ...
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. ...
The liquidity approach to bubbles, crises, jobless recoveries, and involuntary unemployment
El trabajo muestra que las consideraciones de liquidez entregan un fundamento sencillo para la creación y destrucción de burbujas y los trastornos relacionados en el mercado de crédito, en particular la pérdida de valor de las garantías. Se presenta un marco en el que las perturbaciones del crédito ...
Why do countries have fiscal rules?
y el cabildeo del sector privado. Estos objectivos fiscales son compartidos por la mayoría de los países del mundo. La pregunta que surge es: ¿Por qué unos países adoptan una regla fiscal y otros países no? Responderla pasa por identificar bajo qué...
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 ...
Too poor to grow
Development theorists have long been intrigued by a variety of mechanisms capable of generating vicious cycles of poverty and stagnation—broadly referred to as poverty traps. These mechanisms highlight different ways in which poverty may deter growth and become self-perpetuating. Such situation may ...
Global imbalances and external adjustment after the crisis
Over five years have passed since the most intense phase of the global financial crisis. As has been widely documented the pre-crisis period was characterized by increased dispersion in current account deficits and surpluses facilitated by a benign global financial environment characterized by low ...
Financial reforms and capital flows: insights from general equilibrium
How are capital flows affected by financial reforms that relax credit constraints and raise the ability of domestic firms to borrow? At first glimpse one might be tempted to dismiss the question as trivial. If some domestic firms are credit constrained (which we assume to be the case!) relaxing their ...