Automatic price adjustment mechanisms, or indexation, have arisen in a variety of economies with distinct macroeconomic environments and in different moments in time. Examples include the labor market indexation implemented in various European countries in the postwar era, the indexation of financial ...

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 ...

Este artículo caracteriza la estructura de tasas de interés reales en Chile y su evolución a través del tiempo, entregando una herramienta para el estudio sistemático de los determinantes de dicha estructura. Se utilizan datos de tasas de licitación y transacción de papeles del Banco Central de Chile ...

Indexation policies and practices are common in many markets and economies. In most cases, price adjustment mechanisms arise in private contracts as a consequence of high and pervasive inflation. Sometimes governments also play an important role in promoting the use of indexation in their issues of ...

Este trabajo presenta una revisión de los distintos sesgos de medición de la inflación con énfasis en el llamado sesgo de sustitución. Este sesgo se presenta porque los índices que habitualmente se utilizan (incluyendo el de Laspeyres empleado en la medición del IPC) suponen la inexistencia de sustitución ...