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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, ...
Sovereign debt, volatility, and insurance
International capital inflows should, in theory, enable emerging market economies to reduce the volatility of private and public consumption in the presence of income volatility, in addition to allowing foreign savings to finance domestic capital accumulation. Access to international financial markets ...
Una nota sobre el rol estabilizador del flujo de capitales
La teoría de economías competitivas bajo incertidumbre explica que, para individuos como Chile, con un perfil de ingresos creciente, pero a tasas altamente volátiles, inserto en un mundo de—en general— menor volatilidad, los beneficios de participar en mercados internacionales de capital pueden ...
Stabilization, persistence, and inflationary convergence: a comparative analysis
The role of inflationary persistence has become a recurrent theme in discussions on stabilization programs (Fischer, 1986). This has particularly been the case in recent debates on the merits of exchange-rate-based stabilization plans. Some authors claim that anti-inflationary programs based on ...
Principales motivaciones de los chilenos para ahorrar: evidencia usando datos subjetivos
Hay en economía una larga tradición que consiste en el uso de datos subjetivos ya sea para testear la racionalidad de los agentes o para medir los parámetros de la función de utilidad. En ambos casos se trata de poner al individuo en una situación hipotética y hacerle preguntas que le permitan al ...
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 ...
Innovación tecnológica en Chile: dónde estamos y qué se puede hacer
El objetivo principal de este trabajo es caracterizar y evaluar la situación de Chile en aspectos científico-tecnológicos desde un prisma económico. Del análisis realizado se desprende que, considerando el nivel de desarrollo que presenta nuestro país, existen graves deficiencias en nuestro Sistema ...
Inflation targeting in Brazil: shocks, backward-looking prices, and IMF conditionality
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 ...
The chilean experience in completing markets with financial indexation
For a Chilean capital market participant, it may be hard to imagine a world without the indexation unit, the Unidad de Fomento (UF). Most market participants would probably agree that the UF played a central role in the creation of a local capital market and also that it has had a positive impact on ...
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. ...