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The 1997-98 liquidity crisis: Asia versus Latin America
Four years after its outbreak, the Asian crisis continues to confound experts: a region whose countries had long been considered paragons of successful economic development is mired in financial collapse and deep recession. By contrast, Latin America -with the important exceptions of Brazil and Ecuador- ...
The supply-side origins of U.S. inflation
In recent years, we have not seen much of a negative correlation
between inflation, the time series plotted in figure 1, and measures of
resource slack, based on real GDP plotted in figure 2. This flattening
of the Phillips curve in many countries across the world has startled
monetary policymakers. ...
Local impacts of trade liberalization: evidence from the chilean agricultural sector
Protectionist trade policies aim at shielding some sectors— typically but not exclusively manufacturing—from international competition. In doing so they may produce unintended consequences. In particular they tend to create some taxed sectors that use protected inputs usually in the agricultural sector ...
The wealth distribution in developed and developing economies: comparing the United States to Chile using survey data from 2007
Este estudio examina las distribuciones de ingreso, activos, endeudamiento y riqueza en Chile, utilizando datos de la Encuesta Financiera de los Hogares de 2007. Se detalla la desigualdad a nivel agregado y también por una variedad de subgrupos, tales como edad, género, tipo de hogar, tipo de empleo ...
Inflation targeting and the anchoring of inflation expectations in the Western hemisphere
Many central banks have adopted a formal inflation-targeting framework based on the belief and the theoretical predictions that an explicit and clearly communicated numerical objective for the level of inflation over a specified period would, in itself, be a strong communication device that would help ...
Policy evaluation and empirical growth research
This paper explores the implications of the vast body of studies of cross-country growth determinants for the evaluation of alternative policies. Empirical growth studies have experienced a remarkable flowering in the last fifteen years, and innumerable insights have unquestionably been uncovered ...
Transmisión de shocks y acoplamiento con mercados accionarios externos: efectos asimétricos y quiebre estructural
Analizamos la transmisión de shocks desde los principales mercados bursátiles desarrollados —Tokio, Nueva York, París y Frankfurt— hacia el mercado de Santiago, controlando por el de Sao Paulo. Nuestra investigación se concentra en los episodios de 2007 y 2008, donde la transmisión pasó desde los ...
Sorpresas de política monetaria y la curva de rendimiento en Chile
Este trabajo estima el impacto de una innovación de política monetaria sobre la curva de rendimiento nominal y real en Chile durante el período 2002-2007. Usando información de la curva forward para obtener el elemento no anticipado de la acción de política, se encuentra que el efecto de una sorpresa ...
Computing population weights for the efh survey
Este documento muestra el trade-off entre sesgo y varianza en la elección de los factores de expansión para la Encuesta Financiera de Hogares de Chile (EFH) utilizando la ola de 2007. Las alternativas se basan en un procedimiento completo de postestratificación que utiliza como estratos diferentes ...
The response of sovereign bonds yields to U.S. monetary policy
To provide further stimulus to the economy in response to a cascade of shocks that roiled financial markets in the latter part of 2008 the U.S. Federal Reserve started to aggressively employ unconventional monetary policy measures after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the target for ...