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Why are capital flows so much more volatile in emerging than in developed countries?
One of the most studied subjects in open macroeconomics is what determines capital flows. In general, most papers are concerned with estimating the following regression. where the left-hand side is some measurement of capital flows, either as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) or as changes, ...
Capital inflows, credit booms, and macroeconomic vulnerability: the cross-country experience
The turbulence in financial markets is Southeast Asia in 1997-98 and the crisis in Mexico in 1994-95 have renewed interest among policymarkers in the issues of capital account liberalization and financial sector reform. In all the East Asian cases and in Mexico, as well as in many other earlier episodes ...
The 1997-98 liquidity crisis: Asia versus Latin America
Four years after its outbreak, the Asian crisis continues to confound experts: a region whose countries had long been considered paragons of successful economic development is mired in financial collapse and deep recession. By contrast, Latin America -with the important exceptions of Brazil and Ecuador- ...
Inflation targeting and the liquidity trap
This paper considers whether issues regarding liquidity trap or zero lower bound phenomena substantially affect the case for inflation targeting, in comparison with other possible strategies for conducting monetary policy. It examines both theoretical and empirical issues and, in the latter case, ...
Stabilization, persistence, and inflationary convergence: a comparative analysis
The role of inflationary persistence has become a recurrent theme in discussions on stabilization programs (Fischer, 1986). This has particularly been the case in recent debates on the merits of exchange-rate-based stabilization plans. Some authors claim that anti-inflationary programs based on ...
Microeconomic flexibility in Latin America
Latin American economies have begun to leave behind some of the most primitive sources of macroeconomic fluctuations. Policy concern is gradually shifting toward increasing microeconomic flexibility. This is a welcome trend since microeconomic flexibility, which facilitates the ongoing process of ...
Política monetaria y regulación macroprudencial: el paradigma del reparto del riesgo
¿Cómo deben responder la política monetaria y la regulación macroprudencial a los peligros de las burbujas financieras? Yo sostengo que las burbujas ?y su colapso? se convierten en un problema grave cuando el reparto del riesgo es insuficiente. Ni la política monetaria ni la regulación macroprudencial ...
Análisis de flujos en el mercado laboral chileno
En este trabajo se analiza la dinámica del mercado laboral asalariado en Chile utilizando micro datos mensuales provenientes de la base del Seguro de Cesantía. Se calcula flujos entre estados laborales, además de flujos entre sectores geográficos y sectores de la economía. El análisis muestra un gran ...
A veinte años de la autonomía del Banco Central de Chile
En las últimas décadas, ha habido un significativo aumento en el número de bancos centrales independientes. En Chile, la autonomía se adoptó hace ya veinte años. En este documento se presentan las razones por las cuales es conveniente tener un banco central autónomo, y se discute la importancia de la ...
KFstar and portfolio inflows: a focus on Latin America
Policymakers faced with volatile capital flows may desire a method to identify the level of flows likely to persist in the medium
run. In a series of papers (Burger, Warnock, and Warnock, henceforth BWW, 2018, 2022), we have developed an estimate of the natural or equilibrium level of capital flows ...