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The passthrough of large-cost shocks in an inflationary economy
This paper surveys and modestly extends the theory of menu-cost
models of the behavior of the aggregate price level after large-cost
shocks. It does so in the context of an economy with a high underlying
rate of inflation. It concentrates on the effect of large permanent and
unexpected increases ...
Teorías y métodos de medición del producto de tendencia: una aplicación al caso de Chile
Este artículo presenta una revisión de las teorías de determinación del producto de tendencia. Se discuten alternativas metodológicas para derivar el producto de tendencia de la economía Chilena, utilizando información histórica trimestral para el período 1986-2001. Entre los métodos considerados ...
A global safe asset for and from emerging market economies
International capital flows are fickle. Short-term debt funding is especially subject to sudden stops. Sudden flight into safe-haven currencies can cause large disruptions and sharp currency movements ultimately leading to a crisis. When markets shift from a risk-on to a risk-off mood cross-country ...
Unemployment dynamics in Chile: 1960-2015
Como proxy del mercado laboral de Chile, analizamos los flujos del mercado laboral de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago a lo largo de los últimos cincuenta años. Siguiendo la literatura, calculamos las tasas con que se encuentra y se pierde un empleo (tasas de riesgo) en los movimientos desde y hacia ...
Microeconomic flexibility in Latin America
Latin American economies have begun to leave behind some of the most primitive sources of macroeconomic fluctuations. Policy concern is gradually shifting toward increasing microeconomic flexibility. This is a welcome trend since microeconomic flexibility, which facilitates the ongoing process of ...
A decadeof inflation targeting in Chile: developments, lessons, and challenges
In the twentieth century, Chile experienced most monetary and exchange rate regimes. Periods of fixed exchange rates usually ended in speculative attacks as a result of inconsistent policies or significant external shocks, generating serious real costs and larger exchange rate volatility.
Financial reforms and capital flows: insights from general equilibrium
How are capital flows affected by financial reforms that relax credit constraints and raise the ability of domestic firms to borrow? At first glimpse one might be tempted to dismiss the question as trivial. If some domestic firms are credit constrained (which we assume to be the case!) relaxing their ...
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) ...
Inflation targeting in the context of IMF-Supported adjustment programs
For the last few years, the staff of the Iternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has been engaged in assessing the functioning and effectiveness of inflation targeting in IMF member countries that have adopted this scheme as their monetary policy anchor. This involvement was restricted to the IMF's surveillance ...
Household saving and labor informality: the case of Chile
Banco Central de Chile en el 2007 y tenemos entre 2.533 y 1.740 observaciones de hogares urbanos de Chile, dependiendo de la definición de ahorro y la definición de informalidad escogida. Realizamos regresiones de MCO y probit. Nuestra regresión de corte...