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La independencia del Banco Central de Chile: los años iniciales
En este artículo analizo algunos aspectos de la experiencia del Banco Central en la etapa inicial de su autonomía y en especial durante el período 1989-1991 en que me correspondió presidirlo. Para ello utilizo un enfoque de economía política. Dos razones principales justifican esta opción. La primera ...
Floats pegs and the transmission of fiscal policy
One of the most popular pieces of wisdom in economic policy is the idea that fiscal policy is more effective in a fixed exchange rate regime or a currency union than in a flexible exchange rate regime. In this paper we revisit the theoretical foundations of the conventional wisdom on the relative ...
La asamblea radical de Valparaíso ante la cuestión económica: ideas jenerales sobre un nuevo proyecto económico y actas de las sesiones en que se debatieron estos tópicos
En portada: Presentación a los poderes del Estado.
What drives the current account in commodity exporting countries?: the cases of Chile and New Zealand
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 ...
External vulnerability and preventive policies
Emerging market economies endure significant macroeconomic volatility. The large correlation between external factors, e.g., terms of trade and world interest rate shocks, and domestic macroeconomic volatility is highly suggestive of their key role, but it does not explain the mechanism through which ...
Economic policies in emerging-market economies: festschrift in honor of Vittorio Corbo
The Book Series on “Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies” of the Central Bank of Chile publishes new research on central banking and economics in general, with special emphasis on issues and fields that are relevant to economic policies in developing economies. The volumes are published ...
Asimetrías en el ajuste del desalineamiento cambiario en Chile
El tipo de cambio real (TCR) es el precio relativo entre bienes transables y no transables en una economía abierta, y como tal entrega señales para la asignación de recursos entre estos dos sectores. Rodrick (2008) muestra empíricamente que el valor del TCR afecta significativamente el tamaño relativo ...