For decades, the exchange rate was at the center of macroeconomic policy debates in emerging markets. Many countries used the nominal exchange rate to bring down inflation, –others—mostly in Latin America—used the exchange rate to implicitly tax the export sector. Currency crises were common and usually ...

In mid-January 1990, Brazil abandoned its crawling exchange rate band. Surprisingly enough, the country's economic performance in the aftermath of this episode was much better than expected, given the performance of other emerging market economies after a move toward floating. Despite the large ...

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 ...

The profitability of currency carry trades in and of itself is 'economic' evidence against the uncovered interest parity (UIP) condition. There is a wide variety of 'statistical' evidence against UIP. Yet the relationship between these two types of evidence and their implications for time variation ...

En este artículo presentamos nueva evidencia de cambios recientes en la dinámica inflacionaria en Chile. Mostramos que las rigideces de precios han aumentado, mientras el grado de indexación a la inflación pasada ha decrecido a lo largo del tiempo. También mostramos que el traspaso del tipo de cambio ...

En este estudio se analiza la relación de causalidad para diferentes plazos de tres variables relevantes de la economía Chilena: el tipo de cambio peso dólar el precio del cobre y el índice de precios selectivos de acciones IPSA. Para ello se realiza una descomposición mediante la transformada de ...

Floating foreign exchange rates have gained increased support as a preferred system for reducing the vulnerability of emerging markets to external shocks. The volatility associated with floating exchange rates, however, exposes economic agents to the risk of changes in the valuation of the financial ...

Usando una nueva base de datos que incluye la composición por monedas de activos y pasivos de firmas del sector no financiero, este estudio analiza los efectos y determinantes de los descalces cambiarios en Chile. En línea con estudios anteriores, encontramos que después de una depreciación real, las ...

The potential financial vulnerability that can occur when private sector or government agents acquire high levels of foreign currency debt has been at the center of discussion since the financial crises that affected the countries of Southeast Asia in the late 1990s. To the extent that a mismatch is ...

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 ...