The financial crisis that unraveled after the Lehman Brothers collapse affected in different degrees almost all countries around the world independently of the direct exposure of their financial institutions to toxic assets. Most countries saw a sharp drop in demand together with sudden increases in ...

After a long history of high and volatile inflation, the Central Bank of Chile began implementing its monetary policy in the early 1990s by announcing yearly targets for inflation. This new framework was the first step toward a full-fledged inflation-targeting setup, although the Central Bank continued ...

As capital markets have become increasingly integrated, savings and investment within countries have tended to become less correlated, in what is known as the Feldstein-Horioka (1980) correlation, with the corollary that savings-investment gaps (that is, current accounts) have tended to become more ...

Several Asian economies have accumulated large stocks of international reserves over the last few years. This motivates the question we address in this paper from an empirical point of view. Are these large increases in reserves an efficient crisis-prevention strategy? Or are they second-best to other ...

tradeoff que enfrenta el Banco Central. Finalmente, mostramos que la regla que caracteriza el comportamiento del Banco Central de Chile se ha vuelto más agresiva en respuesta a la inflación, y ahora mira más hacia delante, lo cual también es coherente con...

El artículo utiliza un modelo dinámico de equilibrio general (DSGE), para estudiar qué factores determinan los movimientos de la cuenta corriente en Chile y Nueva Zelanda, dos economías abiertas y pequeñas con exportaciones intensivas en recursos naturales. La estimación del modelo muestra que los ...

también es costoso. En este trabajo se discute una serie de antecedentes que permiten una primera evaluación respecto del nivel adecuado de reservas internacionales de Chile. En primer término, se compara Chile con distintos grupos de países utilizando...