En el presente estudio se analizan regularidades macroeconómicas dentro de los grandes bloques económicos (EE.UU., Europa y Japón) y se describe la interacción entre variables relevantes de estos bloques y su relación con variables de interés para la economía Chilena como precios de productos básicos, ...

Commodity prices have experienced significant swings over the past two decades. Real commodity prices have on average more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous one while the prices of some commodities such as copper and other industrial metals have more than tripled in real terms. ...

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 ...

Commodities and commodity markets play a central role in the global economy. Hence commodity market developments are widely chronicled and followed. Commodities are a key input to all countries’ production and a key output of many emerging economies so fluctuations in commodity prices may contribute ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...