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Cointegración estacional en la demanda por dinero
Las estimaciones tradicionales de la demanda de dinero presentan problemas característicos: inestabilidad de los parámetros estimados, inconsistencia con los modelos teóricos y baja capacidad predictiva (Goldfeld y Sichel, 1990). Este trabajo explora en qué medida un tratamiento inadecuado de los ...
Is the foreign exchange derivatives market effective and efficient in reducing currency risk?
Floating foreign exchange rates have gained increased support as a preferred system for reducing the vulnerability of emerging markets to external shocks. The volatility associated with floating exchange rates, however, exposes economic agents to the risk of changes in the valuation of the financial ...
Inflation targeting under political pressure
Historically, many emerging economies, particularly in Latin America, battled against persistently high and volatile inflation. Today, emerging economies continue to experience higher inflation than developed ones, and their central banks deviate more frequently from inflation targets. These patterns ...
Acceso a la educación superior ¿tiene un efecto disuasivo sobre el crimen juvenil? Evidencia para Chile
Este trabajo explora si el acceso a la educación superior en Chile tiene un efecto disuasivo sobre el crimen juvenil. Para esto, se analiza los efectos de una reforma implementada en el 2006 que ha mejorado considerablemente las oportunidades de acceso a instituciones de educación superior: el Crédito ...
The monetary policy transmission mechanism and policy rules in Canada
The inflation targeting regime in place in Canada requires a clear understanding of the monetary policy transmission mechanism and a way to exploit knowledge of that mechanism in making policy decisions. This paper describes the Bank of Canada's current undestanding of the monetary policy transmission ...
Inflation targeting: an overview
After the emergence of a consensus in the 1980s on the harmful effects of inflation, the last decade of the twentieth century witnessed a market reduction in inflation rates across the world. By the end of the 1980s, empirical evidence collected from large cross-country analyses and numerous case ...
Alternative monetary rules in the open-economy: a welfare-based approach
How do central banks choose among alternative monetary polocies? In this paper we analyze that question for an open economy following an interest rate rule. Many issues remain controversial in the design of such a rule. If inflation is targeted, as it presumably is, should the domestic interest rate ...
Macroeconomía, política monetaria y patrimonio del Banco Central de Chile
En este artículo se hacen proyecciones estocásticas del balance (saldos y flujos) del Banco Central de Chile, a partir de su situación deficitaria actual. Estas proyecciones incorporan el efecto que tienen sobre el balance algunas variables macroeconómicas y políticas alternativas y dan cuenta de la ...
Riesgo financiero de los hogares
La vulnerabilidad financiera de los hogares determina el riesgo de no pago de sus deudas. La estabilidad financiera podría verse afectada por el comportamiento de los hogares bajo condiciones macroeconómicas difíciles. La vulnerabilidad financiera del los hogares depende de su nivel de endeudamiento ...
Bernanke's no-arbitrage argument revisited: can open market operations in real assets eliminate the liquidity trap?
This paper looks back on the professional consensus about monetary policy at the zero bound prior to the 2008 crisis and proposes a calibrated model that provides one interpretation to explain why it was somewhat off base. The general consensus in the economics profession in the late 1990s when Japan ...