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A critical view of inflation targeting: crises, limited sustainability and aggregate shocks
Inflation targeting has recently been adopted by the central banks of several advanced economies, including Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The policy is widely perceived as having been successful (see the discussions in Leiderman and Svensson, 1995, ...
Asset prices in Chile: facts and fads
Chile enjoyed an unprecedent period of rapid and sustained growth in the 1986-98 period. Although average growth exceeded 7.1 percent a year, significant cyclical fluctuations also marked the period, both across sectors and across time. Growth in the tradable sectors exceeded 6.7 percent annually from ...
Extracting information on economic activity from business and consumer surveys in an emerging economy (Chile)
El presente artículo discute la medida en que las encuestas de percepción a empresas y consumidores contienen información útil para predecir la actividad económica en Chile. Las encuestas utilizadas son las correspondientes a los índices IMCE e IPEC, para las empresas y consumidores, respectivamente. ...
External vulnerability and preventive policies: an overview
Emerging market economies endure significantly more macroeconomic volatility than industrial countries. Output volatility in emerging market economies is more than twice as large as that in industrial economies, and consumption volatility is three times as large. Recent studies corroborate the view ...
¿Son mejores los sistemas financieros basados en el sistema bancario o los basados en el mercado bursátil?
Por más de un siglo, los economistas y quienes tienen a cargo la política económica han debatido las ventajas relativas a los sistemas financieros basados en el mercado bursátil con respecto a los basados en el sistema bancario. Recientemente, sin embargo, quienes han propuesto un desarrollo del sistema ...
Fiscal policy debt crises and economic growth
It is very well known that growth rates play a role in debt dynamics. Despite this widespread knowledge real world narratives of public debt crises often focus almost exclusively on budget deficits and neglect the role of growth. This paper presents the simplest arithmetic possible to illustrate how ...
Recessions and financial disruptions in emerging markets: a bird's eye view
The global financial crisis of 2008–09 led to massive interruptions in cross-border financial and trade flows. As a result of the crisis virtually all of the advanced economies and many emerging market countries experienced recessions over the past two years. These recessions coincided with various ...
Proyecciones macroeconómicas en Chile: una aproximación estructural y bayesiana
En el presente trabajo se evalúa el desempeño de distintos modelos en la proyección de la tasa de inflación, la brecha del producto, el tipo de cambio real y la tasa de interés vinculada a la política monetaria. Los modelos lineales incluidos son de uso generalizado en los bancos centrales: un BVAR, ...
Recesiones y alteraciones financieras en mercados emergentes: una visión panorámica
Presentamos un panorama general de las implicancias de episodios recesivos y de alteración financiera en economías emergentes, y tres conclusiones principales. La primera es que, en comparación con los países avanzados, dichos episodios por lo general resultan más costosos en las economías emergentes. ...
Leverage restrictions in a business cycle model
We seek to develop a business cycle model with a financial sector which can be used to study the consequences of policies to restrict the leverage of financial institutions (banks). Because we wish the model to be consistent with basic features of business cycle data we introduce our banking system ...