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Captial controls and foreign exchange policy
The question of whether capital controls should be part of the tool box for policymakers to deal with capital flows has become one of the central issues in the international economic policy debate. It was one of the key policy issues in the G20 under the French Presidency in 2011 and it has been covered ...
A decade of debt
Public debts in the advanced economies have surged in recent years to levels that have not been recorded since the end of World War II. Through 2010 the average public debt/GDP ratio for all the advanced economies has surpassed the pre-World War II peaks reached during the World War I and subsequently ...
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 ...
El mapa de la descentralización fiscal en Chile
A partir de una propuesta de Boex y Simatupang (2008) esta investigación estima un indicador de 'empoderamiento fiscal' municipal para Chile (EF) que combina un índice de autonomía fiscal con una medición del grado de control de los residentes sobre el gasto municipal (voice). La principal conclusión ...
Terms of trade shocks and investment in commodity-exporting economies
Commodity prices have experienced significant swings over the past two decades. Real commodity prices have on average more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous one while the prices of some commodities such as copper and other industrial metals have more than tripled in real terms. ...
Government spending and the real exchange rate: a cross-country perspective
There is no consensus about the economic implications of real exchange rate (RER) misalignments. Some authors argue that keeping the real exchange rate away from its equilibrium level creates distortions in the relative prices of tradable and nontradable goods generating misleading signals to economic ...
Presentación realizada en la Conferencia sobre los 25 años de autonomía del Banco Central de Chile
Quisiera agradecer a Rodrigo Vergara por esta invitación para celebrar los 25 años del Banco Central como institución autónoma en un panel en que estamos presentes todos los que hemos precedido a Rodrigo en la Presidencia del Banco. Me parece que es una muy buena oportunidad para tener una visión del ...
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 ...
Robust learning stability with operational monetary policy rules
The recent literature examines the conduct of monetary policy in terms of interest rate rules from the viewpoint of imperfect knowledge and learning by economic agents. The stability of the rational expectations equilibrium is taken as a key desideratum for good monetary policy design. Most of this ...
El crédito bancario durante la crisis financiera del 2008: una comparación internacional
Estimamos empíricamente los principales determinantes del crecimiento del crédito bancario durante la crisis financiera del 2008. Utilizando una muestra de más de 80 países, encontramos que un mayor auge de crédito bancario antes de la crisis y un menor crecimiento del PIB de los socios comerciales ...