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Cambios estructurales en la demanda por trabajo en Chile
La capacidad de generar empleo en la economía Chilena ha sido sorpresivamente lenta durante 2000 y 2001. A pesar de que el crecimiento del producto ha sido positivo desde agosto de 1999 la tasa de desempleo no ha disminuido como se esperaba. Una hipótesis que se ha levantado para explicar este fenómeno ...
Propagación de información entre países
La reciente reversión de los flujos de capital hacia los mercados emergentes ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia permanente del problema de las paradas repentinas. Este trabajo analiza estos episodios en economías emergentes desde 1991. Se observa que la frecuencia y la duración de las paradas ...
Flexibilidad microeconómica en américa latina
En este artículo se caracteriza el grado de inflexibilidad microeconómica en varios países de América Latina, y se concluye que Brasil, Chile y Colombia son más flexibles que México y Venezuela. Ladiferencia se explica principalmente por el comportamiento de los establecimientos grandes, que seajustan ...
El carry trade en mercados industrializados y emergentes
Se revisa la evidencia sobre las ganancias asociadas al carry trade, se explora su relación con el dilema de la paridad de intereses descubierta (PID) y con el comportamiento de las primas por riesgo. Se confirman resultados anteriores en cuanto a que el carry trade es rentable y que la PID no se ...
Recessions and financial disruptions in emerging markets: a bird's eye view
The global financial crisis of 2008–09 led to massive interruptions in cross-border financial and trade flows. As a result of the crisis virtually all of the advanced economies and many emerging market countries experienced recessions over the past two years. These recessions coincided with various ...
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) ...
Leverage restrictions in a business cycle model
We seek to develop a business cycle model with a financial sector which can be used to study the consequences of policies to restrict the leverage of financial institutions (banks). Because we wish the model to be consistent with basic features of business cycle data we introduce our banking system ...
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 ...
Fiscal multipliers and policy coordination
This paper is about an economy in a liquidity trap that is an environment with a zero nominal interest rate deflationary pressures and subpar growth. The paper shows two fiscal policy multipliers in a relatively standard New Keynesian liquidity trap economy with taxation costs. It computes real ...
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 ...