Well before the Great Recession of 2009 put fiscal policy debates in the front burner commodity-exporting countries had to deal with important fiscal policy dilemmas stemming from revenue volatility and eventual depletion. Chilean policymakers have been at the forefront in this area since adopting a ...

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 ...

Desde el año 2003 se viene observando un persistente incremento en el precio de los productos básicos, incluidos el cobre y el petróleo. Se mencionan frecuentemente como factores explicatorios el elevado crecimiento de la economía mundial y la irrupción de China como principal consumidor de materias ...

World commodity prices and their macroeconomic impact especially on emerging economies have long been a main concern in economic research. Decades ago the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of secularly deteriorating terms of trade (Prebisch 1950 Singer 1950) was the subject of intense debate and became a ...

The economic situation in emerging markets has deteriorated in recent years. Perhaps the single most important event especially for Latin America has been the end of the so called commodity supercycle which intensified with the collapse in oil prices in late 2014. But the trend of weaker currencies ...

El significativo e inesperado aumento del precio internacional de los productos básicos, tanto alimentos como combustibles, se tradujo en aumentos generalizados de estos componentes en los índices de precios locales, alzas en la inflación general e incrementos sucesivos en las proyecciones de inflación ...

Entre los años 2007 y 2008, la economía Chilena experimentó severos shocks de costos (aumentos de los precios internacionales de los productos básicos, incrementos del costo de la energía, sequías), los que fueron más persistentes de lo que se pensaba cuando se iniciaron y llevaron la tasa de inflación ...

The global economy of today 'is a small world after all.' The high degree of international trade integration and financial interconnectedness has created tight linkages across most countries even between countries that may be very distant geographically or that may not have significant trade or financial ...

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 ...

En este trabajo se estudia el comportamiento de los precios de los dos productos básicos claves para la economía chilena, el cobre y el petróleo, especialmente en el plazo relevante para la toma de decisiones de política monetaria. Para ello, se plantea un modelo estilizado para el comportamiento de ...