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 ...

This paper explores Chile’s macroeconomic dynamics with the help of a general equilibrium model parameterized for the Chilean economy. The model is based on microanalytic foundations, and its basic relations are derived from intertemporal optimization by a group of forward-looking agents endowed with ...

En la literatura sobre ahorro (consumo) coexisten un conjunto amplio de estudios que utilizan información agregada con un grupo de investigaciones y metodologías que usan datos de origen microeconómico. Lo anterior se explica porque el estudio empírico del ahorro plantea el dilema de ocupar datos ...