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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 ...
Sesgos de política económica cuando las autoridades fiscales y monetarias tienen objetivos diferentes.
La pregunta que se aborda en este trabajo es qué sesgos de política económica pueden ocurrir cuando las autoridades monetarias y las fiscales tienen preferencias distintas en cuanto a la importancia de cerrar las brechas de producción e inflación generadas por shocks adversos. Para cumplir con dicho ...
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 ...
Global imbalances and external adjustment after the crisis
Over five years have passed since the most intense phase of the global financial crisis. As has been widely documented the pre-crisis period was characterized by increased dispersion in current account deficits and surpluses facilitated by a benign global financial environment characterized by low ...
The relationship between exchange rates and inflation targeting revisited
For decades, the exchange rate was at the center of macroeconomic policy debates in emerging markets. Many countries used the nominal exchange rate to bring down inflation, –others—mostly in Latin America—used the exchange rate to implicitly tax the export sector. Currency crises were common and usually ...
On current account surpluses and the correction of global imbalances
The United States has run an increasingly large current account deficit over the last few years. J. P. Morgan forecasts that in 2007 the deficit will reach almost one trillion dollars, or 7 percent of GDP. This unprecedented situation has generated concern among analysts and policymakers. Many argue ...
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 ...
Credit stabilization through public banks: the case of Banco Estado
A novel element in the policy mix that responded to the 2008- 2009 financial crisis was the explicit role given to BancoEstado a publicly-owned commercial bank to alleviate the contraction in domestic credit provided by the banking sector. In order to aid its mission BancoEstado was capitalized by 500 ...
Trade exposure and the evolution of inflation dynamics
The Phillips curve—the relationship between price inflation
and fluctuations in economic activity— is a central building block
of economic models that allow for nominal rigidities and are relied
upon by central banks around the world to gauge cyclical inflationary
pressures and forecast inflation. ...
Una mirada al desarrollo económico de Chile desde una perspectiva internacional
Este trabajo estudia la posición relativa de Chile en el tiempo y respecto de otras economías —emergentes o industrializadas— en distintos indicadores de desarrollo económico, particularmente en las últimas dos décadas. Se presenta un análisis descriptivo, sin explorar relaciones causales ni probar ...