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Do development considerations matter for exchange rate policy?
Chile was one of the world’s fastest-growing economies in the 1990s. Its growth rate of 6.8 percent per year from 1990 to 2000 (inclusive) was the seventh highest in the world, and by far the highest in Latin America. Poverty was halved, and while this was overwhelmingly due to growth rather than a ...
Overoptimism boom-bust cycles and monetary policy in small open economies
In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...
Un Indicador Contemporáneo de Actividad (ICA) para Chile
Esta nota presenta la construcción de un indicador contemporáneo de actividad real para la economía chilena, compuesto tanto por variables que capturan percepciones de la situación económica —datos blandos (soft)—, como también por variables que miden la actividad real, o datos duros (hard). Este tipo ...
Nonlinear effects of the chilean fiscal policy
En Chile, la literatura empírica que ha estudiado los efectos de la política fiscal y los multiplicadores fiscales utilizando modelos lineales de vectores autorregresivos encuentra resultados dispares. El presente documento aporta un nuevo elemento a este debate estudiando si el estado en el que se ...
A toolkit for analyzing alternative policies in the chilean economy
As noted by Leeper (1995) “the business pages of leading newspapers give the impression that the effects of alternative monetary policies on the macroeconomy are well understood and predictable.” They tend “to write with great certainty that when the monetary authority raises interest rates it slows ...