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Goverment size misallocation and the resource curse
Structural transformation is a reallocation of labor across sectors. In this paper I investigate the impact of structural transformation in an open economy on sectoral and aggregate productivity with a particular focus on the role of government. While there are potentially many sources of structural ...
Financial frictions and business cycles in middle-income countries
Empirical analysis reveals three regularities among middleincome countries: consumption is highly procyclical and more volatile than output, investment is highly procyclical and three to four times as volatile as output, and real net exports are countercyclical and about three times as volatile as ...
Análisis de flujos en el mercado laboral chileno
En este trabajo se analiza la dinámica del mercado laboral asalariado en Chile utilizando micro datos mensuales provenientes de la base del Seguro de Cesantía. Se calcula flujos entre estados laborales, además de flujos entre sectores geográficos y sectores de la economía. El análisis muestra un gran ...
Sovereign debt, volatility, and insurance
International capital inflows should, in theory, enable emerging market economies to reduce the volatility of private and public consumption in the presence of income volatility, in addition to allowing foreign savings to finance domestic capital accumulation. Access to international financial markets ...
Microeconomic flexibility in Latin America
Latin American economies have begun to leave behind some of the most primitive sources of macroeconomic fluctuations. Policy concern is gradually shifting toward increasing microeconomic flexibility. This is a welcome trend since microeconomic flexibility, which facilitates the ongoing process of ...
Desempeño y brecha educativa en Chile: ¿existe un sesgo por cobertura?
La mayor cobertura educacional en conjunto con el estancamiento del rendimiento educacional en Chile, en un contexto de mayor gasto en educación, es un verdadero puzle. Una hipótesis natural es que el aumento de la cobertura, al incorporar progresivamente a los grupos más vulnerables, explica la ...
Evidencia microeconómica de rigideces nominales de salarios en Chile
Este documento presenta nueva evidencia sobre la frecuencia de ajuste de los salarios en Chile y sus determinantes. Los datos utilizados provienen de una base de datos construida a partir de información recolectada por la Asociación Chilena de Seguridad (AChS). La base se compone de un panel de 429 ...
On the effects of confidence and uncertainty on aggregate demand: evidence from Chile
El presente artículo estudia los efectos de los shocks de expectativas en el consumo privado agregado y en la inversión en Chile. Utilizando microdatos de la encuesta de clima empresarial IMCE y de la encuesta de confianza del consumidor IPEC construimos medidas de confianza e incertidumbre. Un simple ...
Spillovers to emerging markets during global financial crisis
At the heart of the debate on how the 2007–09 global financial crisis spread from the United States to the rest of the world lies the global banks. Using a large sample composed of advanced and emerging economies since the 1980s Abiad and others (2013) show that the effect of financial linkages on ...
Latin America's access to international capital markets: good behavior or global liquidity?
Latin America has had an active presence in international markets since independence in the early nineteenth century. Participation has been quite volatile, though. International borrowing financed the wars of independence in the early 1800s, but the boom that started in 1822 with a loan to Colombia ...