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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 ...
Latin America's access to international capital markets: good behavior or global liquidity?
Latin America has had an active presence in international markets since independence in the early nineteenth century. Participation has been quite volatile, though. International borrowing financed the wars of independence in the early 1800s, but the boom that started in 1822 with a loan to Colombia ...
Trade orientation and labor market evolution: Evidence from chilean plant-level data
Many developing and developed economies consider structural reforms to trade and fiscal policy that are designed to lower taxes and tariffs and stimulate investment and production of the manufacturing sector. A good example of such a country is Chile, which went through a series of structural reforms ...
Tax incentives for retirement savings: simulation results in the presence of liquidity constraints and heterogeneous consumers in an OLG-GE model
The overlapping generations general equilibrium (OLG-GE) framework constitutes an important tool for policy evaluation. One of its strengths is that it considers that at any given time the population is composed of workers of different ages and, therefore, whith different time horizons. This has two ...
Un estudio del ahorro agregado por agentes económicos en Chile
La notable alza de las tasas de ahorro privado y público desde comienzos de los años 80 en Chile ha despertado considerable interés. Este interés se ha reflejado tanto en discusiones de política económica como en trabajos académicos. Entre ellos, Morandé (1998) y Agosín (1999) se proponen explicar lo ...
Denominación de la deuda del gobierno de Chile: una perspectiva de manejo de riesgos
Este trabajo propone un marco de análisis para evaluar la conveniencia de la denominación actual de la deuda del Gobierno Central de Chile, a través del efecto en el riesgo asociado al resultado fiscal. Se propone una metodología tipo VaR (Valor en riesgo) para comparar denominaciones alternativas de ...
Why do countries have fiscal rules?
Professor Vittorio Corbo in whose honor this conference is organized has an outstanding academic and professional career that spans teaching research policy making and advice provided to the private sector international institutions and governments. In the latter capacity of government advisor he ...
Why do countries have fiscal rules?
Las reformas a las instituciones fiscales y las reglas fiscales persiguen diversos objetivos: fortalecer la solvencia y la sostenibilidad fiscal contribuir a la estabilización macroeconómica y estimular la resiliencia frente a la corrupción estatal y el cabildeo del sector privado. Estos objectivos ...
Centralización, focalización y consecuencias no deseadas: evaluación de los programas de empleo en Chile
En este trabajo se evalúan dos modalidades de programas de empleo ejecutados en Chile desde 1999. Nuestros resultados sugieren que los programas de subsidios a la contratación y capacitación son más eficientes (en términos de productividad) que los programas de empleo directo, aunque no se focalizan ...
Capital flow management with multiple instruments
Emerging markets (EMs) are affected by a global financial cycle originating in developed economies (Rey 2013). An increase in risk appetite of developed economies perhaps spurred by easy monetary policy leads to a surge in capital flows to EMs. These foreign capital flows especially foreign portfolio ...