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Experiences with current account deficits in Southeast Asia
In the 1990s, Southeast Asia experienced very rapid growth associated with large and persistent current account deficits. The episode lasted from 1990 to around 1996, ending with the outbreak of the Asian crisis in 1997–98. Current account deficits peaked at around 10 percent of gross domestic product ...
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. ...
Stocks, flows, and valuation effects of foreign assets and liabilities: do they matter?
Globalization has changed the way countries interact along several dimensions. Financial integration and its underpinnings are probably among the most important. Although cross-border capital flows and external debt have been closely monitored, until recently little was known about the stocks of foreign ...
Capital inflows and books in asset prices: evidence from a panel of countries
Policymakers and academics often believe that large capital inflows are associated with booms in asset prices and therefore with a higher risk of financial crisis. The belief is supported by the theoretical works of Krugman (1998) Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2006) Aoki Benigno and Kiyotaki (2009) ...
Fiscal multipliers and policy coordination
This paper is about an economy in a liquidity trap that is an environment with a zero nominal interest rate deflationary pressures and subpar growth. The paper shows two fiscal policy multipliers in a relatively standard New Keynesian liquidity trap economy with taxation costs. It computes real ...
Captial controls and foreign exchange policy
The question of whether capital controls should be part of the tool box for policymakers to deal with capital flows has become one of the central issues in the international economic policy debate. It was one of the key policy issues in the G20 under the French Presidency in 2011 and it has been covered ...
Desempleo y consumo en Chile
El artículo estudia empíricamente el efecto del desempleo sobre el consumo agregado de bienes habituales en Chile entre 1990 y 2002. Utilizando un modelo de corrección de errores se encuentra que el desempleo rezagado tiene un efecto negativo y estadísticamente significativo sobre el crecimiento del ...
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 ...
Forecasting Chilean inflation with the hybrid new keynesian phillips curve: globalisation, combination, and accuracy
Este artículo analiza el poder predictivo multihorizonte de la Curva de Phillips Híbrida Neokeynesiana (HNKPC) en la economía Chilena, para el período comprendido entre enero del 2000 y diciembre del 2014. Un elemento distintivo de este artículo es el uso de una especificación de Vector Autoregresivo ...
Riesgo financiero y política monetaria: una aplicación para Chile
Este estudio construye un modelo para la vulnerabilidad del sector financiero y lo integra a un marco macroeconómico de uso común en el análisis de política monetaria. La principal interrogante que se espera responder con el modelo integrado es si los bancos centrales deberían o no incluir en forma ...