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Monetary policy in Chile: institutions objectives and instruments
Inflation seemed to be an endemic disease of the Chilean economy for most of the 20th century with its presence being felt even before the creation of the Central Bank in 1925. However things seemed to change drastically in the mid 1990s when the country began to experience a sustained process of ...
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 ...
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 ...
An anatomy of credit booms and their demise
Episodes in which credit to the private sector rises significantly above its long-run trend (that is 'credit booms') are often associated with periods of economic turbulence. Until recently however efforts at developing methodologies for identifying credit booms and characterizing the economic ...
Propagación de información entre países
La reciente reversión de los flujos de capital hacia los mercados emergentes ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia permanente del problema de las paradas repentinas. Este trabajo analiza estos episodios en economías emergentes desde 1991. Se observa que la frecuencia y la duración de las paradas ...
Régimen de metas de inflación y credibilidad de la política monetaria en Chile
En este artículo presentamos nueva evidencia de cambios recientes en la dinámica inflacionaria en Chile. Mostramos que las rigideces de precios han aumentado, mientras el grado de indexación a la inflación pasada ha decrecido a lo largo del tiempo. También mostramos que el traspaso del tipo de cambio ...
Why do countries have fiscal rules?
Professor Vittorio Corbo in whose honor this conference is organized has an outstanding academic and professional career that spans teaching research policy making and advice provided to the private sector international institutions and governments. In the latter capacity of government advisor he ...
Monetary policy under flexible exchange rates: an introduction to inflation targeting
Both policymakers and economists increasingly accept that the main medium- to long-run goal of monetary policy is the pursuit of price stability, defined as maintaining a low and stable rate of inflation. A high and variable inflation rate is socially and economically costly.
Global information spillovers
The amount of information produced in an economy varies over time. Stock prices in particular are informative but their degree of informativeness changes over time. Agents do not produce the same amount of information in every macroeconomic state of the world or in anticipation of every state. Although ...
It's not factor accumulation: stylized facts and growth models
The central problem in understanding economic development and growth is not, in fact, to understand the process by which an economy raises its savings rate and increases the rate of physical capital accumulation. Many development practitioners and researchers continue to target capital accumulation ...