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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 ...
Diversificación financiera e interrupción repentina del flujo de capitales
La literatura reciente sobre las interrupciones súbitas de los flujos de capitales estudia las bruscas y variadas reversiones de la cuenta financiera que han experimentado muchas economías emergentes. El presente artículo argumenta que el comportamiento de los flujos brutos de capital aporta más ...
Monetary policy transmission in emerging markets: an application to Chile
A critical question for emerging-market policymakers is how to adjust to monetary policy changes in the center. A core tenet of modern macroeconomic theory is that countries should let their exchange rate float when financial conditions abroad change. This allows the nominal and real exchange rates ...
Riesgo sistémico asociado a los hogares en Chile
Este trabajo contribuye a la comprensión del riesgo sistémico asociado a los hogares, mediante el análisis detallado de oferentes y demandantes de crédito en Chile entre 1997 y 2008. Se ofrece un importante esfuerzo de compilación y compatibilización de información, se estudian las interconexiones y ...
Inflation globally
The fortunes of the Phillips curve have ebbed and flowed ever
since it was proposed by Phillips (1958). Although its origins are
primarily as an empirical regularity, there is now a vast literature
that provides more formal justification. In recent times, the Great
Moderation and the modern era ...
El trabajo a tiempo parcial en Chile
La evolución del trabajo a tiempo parcial en Chile y sus determinantes constituyen el tema de este artículo. Se testean algunas hipótesis encontradas en la literatura internacional para determinar si el trabajo a tiempo parcial es inestable, si la hora trabajada es peor remunerada, y si se toma como ...
Cuenta corriente y financiamiento externo
Este trabajo muestra un resumen integrado de los aspectos más sobresalientes de los trabajos presentados en la décima Conferencia Anual del Banco Central de Chile 'Cuenta Corriente y Financiamiento Externo', realizada en noviembre de 2006 y por aparecer compilados en un libro de próxima publicación. ...
Global liquidity spillovers to emerging markets and policy responses: an overview
Global liquidity has become a popular concept in academic and policy discussions of recent years. This concept captures overall 'ease of financing' prevalent in the world economy (Caruana 2013) and it is usually mentioned as a possible cause of capital inflows global imbalances excessive credit expansion ...
Inflation targeting in the context of IMF-Supported adjustment programs
For the last few years, the staff of the Iternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has been engaged in assessing the functioning and effectiveness of inflation targeting in IMF member countries that have adopted this scheme as their monetary policy anchor. This involvement was restricted to the IMF's surveillance ...
Debt- and equity-led capital flow episodes
Our earlier work has helped to switch the focus of studies of extreme capital flow movements toward the use of data on gross inflows (mainly driven by foreigners) and outflows (mainly driven by domestics) rather than relying on net flows (the sum of the two) (Forbes and Warnock 2012). The old focus ...