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Commodity prices fluctuations and monetary policy in small open ecomomies
Increased volatility in the world prices of commodities such as oil and food which are basic imports for many countries has rekindled interest on the question of how monetary policy should best adjust to external commodity price movements. Recent studies have analyzed the issue in the New Keynesian ...
Boletín mensual
Esta publicación, creada en enero de 1928, contiene estadísticas de los principales indicadores de actividad y empleo, información monetaria y financiera, precios y salarios, exportaciones e importaciones, balanza comercial, balanza de pagos, reservas internacionales, inversión extranjera, inversión ...
Statistical synthesis of Chile 1976-1980
This publication contains information from the past five years on general characteristics of the country, such as surface area, borders, climate and weather, natural resources, temperature, rain and pollution statistics, population, governmental system, political-administrative division, along with a ...
Macroeconomic and financial stability: an overview
On September 2008 Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and the world became aware that the financial crisis that had been unfolding for months was far more serious than expected. Months later it became clear that the financial crisis of 2008-2009 was the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression ...
Risks to central-bank independence
Central banking today faces a number of existential challenges. On the political side, and particularly after the financial crisis, the public has come to expect central banks to take on a dizzying array of responsibilities, some far beyond their power or remit. These include everything from enhanced ...
Overoptimism boom-bust cycles and monetary policy in small open economies
In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...
Resource revenue management: three policy clocks
Economies in which the extraction of a non-renewable natural resource is a significant activity pose two distinctive challenges for economic policy: Revenues are likely to fluctuate because commodity prices have historically been volatile. Furthermore the revenue from extraction is generated by depleting ...
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 ...
Indicadores de comercio exterior, Cuarto trimestre 2015
Esta publicación contiene información sobre exportaciones e importaciones totales a nivel de país. Comprende dos partes: en la primera, se presenta un análisis del comportamiento global del comercio exterior, algunos estudios especiales sobre sectores de la producción y el intercambio comercial con ...