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Financial intermediation and growth: causality and causes
Do better functioning financial intermediaries -financial intermediaries that are better at ameliorating information asymmetrics and facilitating transactions- exert a causal influence on economic growth? Providing evidence on causality has implications for policymakers and economists. For instance, ...
Inflation targeting versus price-path targeting: looking for improvements
The world’s central banks have undergone dramatic changes in the past fifteen years. Increases in independence and transparency have been coupled with a shift in focus. Price stability is now the paramount objective for the vast majority of modern central bankers. Combined, these changes in central ...
The 1997-98 liquidity crisis: Asia versus Latin America
Four years after its outbreak, the Asian crisis continues to confound experts: a region whose countries had long been considered paragons of successful economic development is mired in financial collapse and deep recession. By contrast, Latin America -with the important exceptions of Brazil and Ecuador- ...
Financial regulation and performance: cross-country evidence
The unprecedented number of costly bank failures throughout the world in the last two decades of the twentieth century has focused attention on the need to determine more appropriate ways to improve the performance of countries financial systems. Indeed, a substantial literature is already emerging ...
Impuesto al co2 en el sector eléctrico Chileno: efectividad y efectos macroeconómicos
Chile se ha comprometido internacionalmente a reducir sus emisiones de CO2 en 30% al año 2030. Como el sector eléctrico aporta 42% del total de emisiones, recientemente se ha introducido un impuesto al CO2 de US$5 por tonelada emitida. Sin embargo, no existe una estimación del efecto de esta política ...
Determinantes de la exposición cambiaria de las empresas Chilenas
Se examina el impacto de las fluctuaciones del tipo de cambio sobre el valor de las empresas no financieras en Chile. Utilizando un conjunto de datos detallados sobre las actividades externas y el uso de derivados monetarios por parte de las empresas, se analizan los determinantes potenciales de la ...
Dynamics of earnings in Chile
Uncertainty is a key dimension of individual decisionmaking. Individuals cannot insure against certain contingencies under incomplete markets. Uncertainty thus influences the life-cycle evolution of consumption and savings, labor supply and asset allocation, and education and occupation choices. ...
Trilemmas and tradeoffs: living with financial globalization
This paper evaluates the capacity of emerging market economies (EMEs) to moderate the domestic impact of global financial and monetary forces through their own monetary policies. I present the case that those EMEs able to exploit a flexible exchange rate are far better positioned than those that devote ...
Household financial vulnerability
Household indebtedness in Chile has received considerable attention in recent years because of the financial deepening process underway in the economy. Although various macroeconomic indicators show significant increases in the last decade, there are few tools for evaluating the real vulnerability of ...
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 ...