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Evaluación de propuestas recientes en torno a la arquitectura financiera internacional
En la discusión reciente sobre la denominada “arquitectura financiera internacional” destacan las propuestas referidas a mecanismos de reestructuración de deuda soberana. También ha recibido un grado relevante de atención la línea de crédito contingente que ofrece el Fondo Monetario Internacional desde ...
Fiscal policy debt crises and economic growth
It is very well known that growth rates play a role in debt dynamics. Despite this widespread knowledge real world narratives of public debt crises often focus almost exclusively on budget deficits and neglect the role of growth. This paper presents the simplest arithmetic possible to illustrate how ...
Crisis en la Zona Euro: fundamentos tras el reciente aumento de spreads soberanos
El fuerte aumento de la deuda pública de la Zona Euro, generado por las políticas fiscales expansivas —paquetes de estímulo económico y efectos cíclicos sobre los ingresos fiscales—, es un riesgo central presente actualmente en los mercados financieros internacionales, que causa preocupación por la ...
A decade of debt
Public debts in the advanced economies have surged in recent years to levels that have not been recorded since the end of World War II. Through 2010 the average public debt/GDP ratio for all the advanced economies has surpassed the pre-World War II peaks reached during the World War I and subsequently ...
Optimal management of indexed and nominal debt
In standard macroeconomics, fiscal policy involves choices about expenditures, taxes, and debt issue. The different kinds of public spending may be distinguished with respect to their interactions with private decisions. For example, some public activities influence private production and some interact ...
The chilean experience in completing markets with financial indexation
For a Chilean capital market participant, it may be hard to imagine a world without the indexation unit, the Unidad de Fomento (UF). Most market participants would probably agree that the UF played a central role in the creation of a local capital market and also that it has had a positive impact on ...
Indexation of public debt: analytical considerations and an application to the case of Brazil
Since the implementation of the Real Plan of 1994, the Brazilian economy has been in the process of reducing its degree of indexation. For more than three decades, Brazilian wages, rents, financial securities, and other contracts were indexed to the price level. The frequency of adjustment sometimes ...