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Inflation targeting in financially stable economies: has it been flexible enough?
The international financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008- 09 called for a range of significant policy measures by central banks beyond aggressive interest rate cuts. Measures have ranged from improving international coordination to purchasing local private loan portfolios and direct intervention ...
Current account and external financing: an introduction
Economic analysts were surprised by the collapse of the Thai baht in July 1997. In the months that followed, most of the so-called East Asian Tigers faced severe balance-of-payments crises, and a year later, in August 1998, the Russian ruble was devalued. As a result of this succession of crises, the ...
Financial diversification, sudden stops, and sudden starts
The financial crises of the second half of the 1990s have led to renewed interest in the causes and consequences of international capital flows. Sudden stops, defined as large drops in net capital inflows, have received particular attention, given the collapses in output and investment commonly ...
Currency mismatches in chilean nonfinancial corporations
The potential financial vulnerability that can occur when private sector or government agents acquire high levels of foreign currency debt has been at the center of discussion since the financial crises that affected the countries of Southeast Asia in the late 1990s. To the extent that a mismatch is ...
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...
Cuenta corriente y financiamiento externo
Este trabajo muestra un resumen integrado de los aspectos más sobresalientes de los trabajos presentados en la décima Conferencia Anual del Banco Central de Chile 'Cuenta Corriente y Financiamiento Externo', realizada en noviembre de 2006 y por...
Diversificación financiera e interrupción repentina del flujo de capitales
La literatura reciente sobre las interrupciones súbitas de los flujos de capitales estudia las bruscas y variadas reversiones de la cuenta financiera que han experimentado muchas economías emergentes. El presente artículo argumenta que el comportamiento de los flujos brutos de capital aporta más ...