Este artículo analiza la reacción del tipo de cambio entre pesos Chilenos y dólares estadounidenses a las medidas de política monetaria que se adoptan en Chile y Estados Unidos. Se corre una regresión a la variación del tipo de cambio frente a un anuncio de política, sobre la variación de la tasa de ...

Policies that distort domestic saving decisions have general equilibrium effects on trade flows and the real exchange rate. In particular increasing domestic savings keeps the real exchange rate undervalued depressing imports and increasing exports. However there are important differences between ...

La presente nota estudia el rol que juegan las rigideces salariales en la trayectoria de inflación en presencia de shocks, en particular de aquellos que llevan la inflación a valores negativos. Para lo anterior se utiliza el modelo estructural de proyecciones MEP — que se supone en equilibrio inicial— ...

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 ...

There is no consensus about the economic implications of real exchange rate (RER) misalignments. Some authors argue that keeping the real exchange rate away from its equilibrium level creates distortions in the relative prices of tradable and nontradable goods generating misleading signals to economic ...

Since the mid-1970s, the macroeconomic consequences of wage indexation has been the subject of considerable research. Starting with an enthusiastic proposal for indexation by Friedman (1974) and two influential papers by Gray (1976) and Fischer (1977), the academic literature has examined the effects ...

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 ...

En una economía pequeña y abierta como la chilena, el tipo de cambio (TC) es una variable fundamental para la determinación de la inflación y la actividad. Una buena comprensión de los movimientos pasados y futuros del TC parece esencial para una política monetaria adecuada. La presente minuta analiza ...

Contrariamente a lo que sucede en economías como las de Brasil y México, la correlación entre tipo de cambio y spread soberano en Chile ha sido baja. En principio, existen distintas hipótesis para explicar esta aparentemente reducida correlación. Por un lado, podría ser un síntoma de que el mercado ...

With the end of intermediate exchange rate regimes, countries are either abandoning domestic monetary policy (by choosing super-hard pegs or relinquishing their national currencies altogether) or strengthening independent monetary policymaking (by adopting floating exchange rates, of either the clean ...