Esta nota presenta un análisis de la tasa de interés comercial cobrada por los bancos en Chile, describiendo su nivel y dispersión para los distintos sectores económicos. Se caracterizan los créditos de las empresas y su principal producto financiero: los créditos en cuotas pactados en pesos. Los ...

Stress tests, applied to the banking system, have been a tool widely used by several private and governmental institutions at the international level, especially after the global financial crisis. This tool assesses the resilience of banks to numerous macro-financial shocks in different dimensions. ...

El Análisis de Derechos Contingentes (CCA por su sigla en inglés) ha resultado útil para establecer el riesgo de no pago de las firmas. Esta metodología se basa en Merton (1974), quien supone que el valor de los activos de las firmas es aleatorio, por lo que su valor bursátil corresponde al valor de ...

One of the most striking features of the world economy over the last twenty-five years has been the sharp decline in the real interest rate from approximately 4% in the early 1990s to -1.5% in 2013 (figure 1). During this period there have been two waves of large capital inflows into emerging economies ...

Este trabajo realiza un estudio comparativo de dos de los canales de transmisión de la política monetaria —la tasa de interés y el del tipo de cambio— entre dos economías que operan bajo un sistema establecido de metas de inflación, Chile y Nueva Zelanda, y dos economías cuyo régimen de metas de ...

At least since the time of Irving Fisher economists as well as the general public have regarded the interest rate as the most important variable in the economy. But in times of crisis collateral rates (margins or leverage equivalently) are far more important. Despite the cries of newspapers to lower ...

On 16 December 2008 the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the federal funds rate—its traditional monetary policy instrument—to essentially zero in response to the most severe U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression. Because U.S. currency carries an interest ...

The long period of low interest rates that followed the global financial crisis has rekindled interest in how short-term interest rates affect bank behavior. In particular it has led to a debate on how low policy rates influence bank risk-taking. This risk-taking channel of monetary policy corresponds ...

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 ...