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Indización: rasgos históricos en Chile y experiencia internacional
Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos. Primero, revisar la historia de la indización en Chile a partir de 1938 interpretando los cambios que se han producido dentro del contexto histórico, político y económico de las diferentes etapas del desarrollo económico del país. Segundo, a través de la revisión de ...
Metas de inflación en economías financieramente estables: ¿un sistema suficientemente flexible?
La crisis financiera y la recesión de 2008-2009 exigieron importantes medidas de política de parte de los bancos centrales. Entre los países con metas de inflación, surge la pregunta natural sobre si sus esquemas de política monetaria mostraron la flexibilidad necesaria para hacer frente a estos ...
Política macroprudencial: promesas y desafíos
La política macroprudencial encierra la promesa de convertirse en una herramienta poderosa para prevenir crisis financieras. Una amplificación financiera como respuesta a un shock local o a un contagio global y externalidades pecuniarias causadas por restricciones de colateral fisherianas, entrega un ...
Demanda por dinero: teoría, evidencia, resultados
Este artículo presenta una revisión crítica de la literatura económica sobre la demanda por dinero, poniendo énfasis en los resultados empíricos obtenidos para Chile. La primera parte del análisis reseña brevemente los principales enfoques analíticos acerca de la demanda por dinero en una perspectiva ...
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 ...
New keynesian models for Chile in the inflation-targeting period
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with nominal rigidities have become a popular tool for monetary policy analysis in recent years. The basic sticky price model has been enriched to include additional sources of nominal and real rigidities. These additional elements have been introduced ...
Managing sudden stops
Sudden stops are when capital inflows dry up abruptly. The banker’s aphorism—'It’s not speed that kills but the sudden stop'— has been popularly invoked since at least the Mexican crisis in 1994. Awareness then rose with impetus from the Argentine crisis (1995) the Asian crisis (1997) the Russian ...
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 ...
Large hoardings of international reserves: are they worth it?
Several Asian economies have accumulated large stocks of international reserves over the last few years. This motivates the question we address in this paper from an empirical point of view. Are these large increases in reserves an efficient crisis-prevention strategy? Or are they second-best to other ...
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 ...