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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 ...
External conditions and growth performance
A central dimension of globalization is the world trend toward larger trade and financial openness, observed in most industrial and developing economies. Openness increases the integration of world goods and capital markets, contributing to potential gains in growth and welfare. However, increased ...
Securitización de hipotecas y desarrollo económico: un ensayo sobre la Caja Hipotecaria de Chile
Este ensayo recorre los primeros cincuenta años de la Caja de Crédito Hipotecario de Chile desde su creación en 1855. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, las operaciones crediticias de la Caja activaron la rápida expansión del regadío del Valle Central y posibilitaron el concomitante aumento de ...
Indexation of public debt: analytical considerations and an application to the case of Brazil
Since the implementation of the Real Plan of 1994, the Brazilian economy has been in the process of reducing its degree of indexation. For more than three decades, Brazilian wages, rents, financial securities, and other contracts were indexed to the price level. The frequency of adjustment sometimes ...
Emerging market fluctuations: the role of interest rates and productivity shocks
Business cycles in emerging markets are characterized by high levels of volatility in income, investment, and net exports. Consumption is more volatile than income, and net exports are highly countercyclical (see Aguiar and Gopinath, 2007). Furthermore, the interest rates faced by these economies are ...
La demanda de dinero por motivo transacción en Chile
Este artículo analiza la demanda de dinero por motivo transacción en Chile entre los años 1986 y 2000. Utilizando el método de cointegración propuesto por Johansen (1995), se encuentra que, pese a que los datos macroeconómicos en Chile muestran una fuerte estacionariedad en tendencia, es posible ...
Flexibilidad microeconómica en américa latina
En este artículo se caracteriza el grado de inflexibilidad microeconómica en varios países de América Latina, y se concluye que Brasil, Chile y Colombia son más flexibles que México y Venezuela. Ladiferencia se explica principalmente por el comportamiento de los establecimientos grandes, que seajustan ...
Concentración, hold-up e información de las colocaciones bancarias: evidencia de empresas Chilenas
El artículo contiene un estudio empírico de la relación banco-cliente, basado en una muestra de empresas manufactureras Chilenas. En él se analiza si la concentración y la duración de la relación entre deudor y acreedor afectan el volumen de endeudamiento bancario. Los resultados indican que la menor ...
Exchange rate interventions and insurance: is fear of floating a cause for concern?
Fear of floating has recently come to be seen as one of the central de facto characteristics of exchange rate regimes in emerging markets, after first being identified by Calvo and Reinhart (2002). The interpretation of this phenomenon is still open to question. Does the optimal monetary regime for ...
On current account surpluses and the correction of global imbalances
The United States has run an increasingly large current account deficit over the last few years. J. P. Morgan forecasts that in 2007 the deficit will reach almost one trillion dollars, or 7 percent of GDP. This unprecedented situation has generated concern among analysts and policymakers. Many argue ...