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The wealth distribution in developed and developing economies: comparing the United States to Chile using survey data from 2007
Este estudio examina las distribuciones de ingreso, activos, endeudamiento y riqueza en Chile, utilizando datos de la Encuesta Financiera de los Hogares de 2007. Se detalla la desigualdad a nivel agregado y también por una variedad de subgrupos, tales como edad, género, tipo de hogar, tipo de empleo ...
The leverage cycle default and foreclosure
At least since the time of Irving Fisher economists as well as the general public have regarded the interest rate as the most important variable in the economy. But in times of crisis collateral rates (margins or leverage equivalently) are far more important. Despite the cries of newspapers to lower ...
Monetary policy in the grip of a pincer movement
Monetary policy has come under strain since the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007–09. Once the GFC broke out central banks’ swift and determined response was essential to stabilise markets and to avoid a self-reinforcing downward spiral between the financial system and the real economy. But putting ...
Liquidity and foreing asset management challenges for Latin America countries
The Global Financial Crisis put to the fore the challenges of managing liquidity and foreign assets at times of heightened volatility. Earlier concerns of some observers regarding the costs of precautionary hoarding notwithstanding the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) validated the buffer value of ...
The monetary transmission mechanism in Chile: a medium-sized macroeconometric model
The objective in building and specifying macroeconomic models is to reflect the main characteristics of an economy in a stylized way. This article describes a macroeconometric model for the Chilean economy. The aim of the model is to forecast the main macroeconomic variables, along with policy exercises ...
The effects of U.S. monetary policy on emerging market economies’ sovereign and corporate bond markets
The global environment for emerging market economy (EME) bond markets has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Local currency bond markets (LCBMs) have developed especially in EMEs with low inflation stronger institutions and well defined creditor rights (see Burger and Warnock 2003 2006 ...
Estimación de la estructura de tasas nominales de Chile: aplicación del modelo dinámico nelson-siegel
En este artículo se propone una versión discreta y dinámica del modelo de Nelson y Siegel para la estimación de la estructura de tasas de interés, la que se obtiene asumiendo como válida la Hipótesis de Expectativas en Logaritmo, además de una modelación explícita para la dinámica de los factores del ...
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 ...
Autonomía de bancos centrales: la experiencia chilena
Tras una revisión selectiva de la literatura teórica y empírica relativa al desempeño macroeconómico y la autonomía del banco central presentamos nueva evidencia respecto de la relación entre esta última y el coeficiente de traspaso de tipo de cambio a inflación. Luego analizamos, desde distintos ...
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 ...