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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 ...
Overoptimism boom-bust cycles and monetary policy in small open economies
In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...
What drives the current account in commodity exporting countries?: the cases of Chile and New Zealand
As capital markets have become increasingly integrated, savings and investment within countries have tended to become less correlated, in what is known as the Feldstein-Horioka (1980) correlation, with the corollary that savings-investment gaps (that is, current accounts) have tended to become more ...
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 ...
Régimen de metas de inflación y credibilidad de la política monetaria en Chile
tradeoff que enfrenta el Banco Central. Finalmente, mostramos que la regla que caracteriza el comportamiento del Banco Central de Chile se ha vuelto más agresiva en respuesta a la inflación, y ahora mira más hacia delante, lo cual también es coherente con...
¿Qué determina la cuenta corriente de los países exportadores de recursos naturales? Los casos de Chile y Nueva Zelanda
El artículo utiliza un modelo dinámico de equilibrio general (DSGE), para estudiar qué factores determinan los movimientos de la cuenta corriente en Chile y Nueva Zelanda, dos economías abiertas y pequeñas con exportaciones intensivas en recursos naturales. La estimación del modelo muestra que los ...
Acerca del nivel adecuado de las reservas internacionales: el caso de Chile
también es costoso. En este trabajo se discute una serie de antecedentes que permiten una primera evaluación respecto del nivel adecuado de reservas internacionales de Chile. En primer término, se compara Chile con distintos grupos de países utilizando...