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Credit stabilization through public banks: the case of Banco Estado
A novel element in the policy mix that responded to the 2008- 2009 financial crisis was the explicit role given to BancoEstado a publicly-owned commercial bank to alleviate the contraction in domestic credit provided by the banking sector. In order to aid its mission BancoEstado was capitalized by 500 ...
Relación entre el dólar el precio del cobre y el ipsa en distintas escalas de tiempo: una aproximación a través de wavelet
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 ...
Private information in the mortgage market: evidence and a theory of crises
The securitization boom in the United States mortgage market from 2000 to 2005 was enormous (figure 1). According to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) new issuance of securities backed by mortgages that were not insured by the U.S. government rose by a factor of twelve ...
Pegs downward wage rigidity and unemployment: the role of financial structure
A characteristic of the current crisis in Europe is that countries in its periphery have found themselves increasingly cut off from international financial markets. In the present study we ask how such changes in the financial structure influence the welfare consequences of maintaining a fixed exchange ...
Captial controls and foreign exchange policy
The question of whether capital controls should be part of the tool box for policymakers to deal with capital flows has become one of the central issues in the international economic policy debate. It was one of the key policy issues in the G20 under the French Presidency in 2011 and it has been covered ...
Terms of trade shocks and investment in commodity-exporting economies
Commodity prices have experienced significant swings over the past two decades. Real commodity prices have on average more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous one while the prices of some commodities such as copper and other industrial metals have more than tripled in real terms. ...