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Riding the roller coaster: fiscal policies of nonrenewable resource exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean
In the last decade the prices of nonrenewable resources which constitute a critical source of fiscal revenue in many Latin American and Caribbean countries recorded sharp swings correlated with economic growth developments in the world and in the region. Similar episodes in the past led to boom and ...
Procyclicality of fiscal policy in emerging countries: the cycle is the trend
Economic research on fiscal policy has shown that while developed economies tend to run countercyclical fiscal policies Latin American countries have been characterized by procyclical policies. One of the explanations given to this phenomenon is that high external debt causes severe constraints on the ...
Government spending and the real exchange rate: a cross-country perspective
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 ...
Taxes and the labor market
One of the defining features of the financial crisis of 2008?09 has been its persistent impact on the U.S. labor market with the unemployment rate roughly doubling from early 2008 through mid2010. This has ignited an intense debate on the appropriate stimulus response of fiscal policy. The debate has ...
Ciclo económico, riesgo y costo del crédito en Chile desde una perspectiva de modelos VAR estructurales
Este trabajo estudia la interacción entre el ciclo económico y el mercado de crédito en Chile. Los resultados se obtienen con la identificación de shocks mediante un modelo VAR estructural que reproduce el mecanismo de transmisión estándar empírico de la política monetaria que se ha encontrado en otros ...
¿Puede una política monetaria expansiva llevar a auges de precios de activos? Evidencia histórica y empírica
Este trabajo desarrolla un método para identificar auges de precios de activos, centrado en la vivienda, las bolsas accionarias y las materias primas, con datos de 18 países OCDE desde 1920 hasta el presente. Se verifica si el conjunto de episodios de auge puede relacionarse con distintas mediciones ...