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Japanese banking problems: implications for Southeast Asia
During the late 1980s, Japanese banks substantially increased their global presence. In part the expansion was undertaken to help service Japanese companies that were increasingly involved in foreign direct investment. However, this expansion also can be attibuted to Japan's positio as the world's ...
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 ...
Credibility and inflation targeting in Chile
After a long history of high and volatile inflation, the Central Bank of Chile began implementing its monetary policy in the early 1990s by announcing yearly targets for inflation. This new framework was the first step toward a full-fledged inflation-targeting setup, although the Central Bank continued ...
Experiences with current account deficits in Southeast Asia
In the 1990s, Southeast Asia experienced very rapid growth associated with large and persistent current account deficits. The episode lasted from 1990 to around 1996, ending with the outbreak of the Asian crisis in 1997–98. Current account deficits peaked at around 10 percent of gross domestic product ...
New keynesian models for Chile in the inflation-targeting period
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with nominal rigidities have become a popular tool for monetary policy analysis in recent years. The basic sticky price model has been enriched to include additional sources of nominal and real rigidities. These additional elements have been introduced ...
Large hoardings of international reserves: are they worth it?
Several Asian economies have accumulated large stocks of international reserves over the last few years. This motivates the question we address in this paper from an empirical point of view. Are these large increases in reserves an efficient crisis-prevention strategy? Or are they second-best to other ...
Desempleo y consumo en Chile
El artículo estudia empíricamente el efecto del desempleo sobre el consumo agregado de bienes habituales en Chile entre 1990 y 2002. Utilizando un modelo de corrección de errores se encuentra que el desempleo rezagado tiene un efecto negativo y estadísticamente significativo sobre el crecimiento del ...
Regularidades empíricas del entorno internacional relevante para la economía Chilena
En el presente estudio se analizan regularidades macroeconómicas dentro de los grandes bloques económicos (EE.UU., Europa y Japón) y se describe la interacción entre variables relevantes de estos bloques y su relación con variables de interés para la economía Chilena como precios de productos básicos, ...
Valuation effects and external adjustment: a review
Ever since David Hume introduced his price-specie flow mechanism in 1752, the question of external adjustment has been a classic issue for international macroeconomists. In 1968 Robert Mundell asked “To what extent should surplus countries expand, to what extent should deficit countries contract?” ...
Modelos neokeynesianos para Chile durante el período de metas de inflación: un enfoque estructural
Conocer las fricciones que están presentes en la economía es de fundamental importancia para el diseño de políticas. En particular, las rigideces de precios y salarios determinan el grado de tradeoff entre la estabilización del producto o de la inflación que enfrentan los bancos centrales. En este ...