Chile offers an example of a country that has overcome the fear of floating by reducing balance-sheet mismatches; enhancing financial-market development; and improving monetary, fiscal, and political institutions; while strengthening policy credibility. Under the floating regime, Chile’s economic ...

The ongoing global financial crisis has been a rude awakening that the current framework for safeguarding financial stability is neither reliable nor effective. The threats to global economic stability caused by the dysfunction of credit and money markets and the weakening of the global banking system ...

We seek to develop a business cycle model with a financial sector which can be used to study the consequences of policies to restrict the leverage of financial institutions (banks). Because we wish the model to be consistent with basic features of business cycle data we introduce our banking system ...

The paper by Christiano and Ikeda in this volume is one of the first efforts to quantify the welfare gains of leverage constraints in a macroeconomic model with a banking sector. Unlike other models their answer is that they can be even more desirable when banks hold little equity and intermediation ...

Economies with imperfect financial market access may experience crises that cause significant economic dislocation. These crises are characterized by the sudden stop of domestic or international credit flows and they are associated with large declines in consumption output relative prices and asset ...

The Book Series on “Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies” of the Central Bank of Chile publishes new research on central banking and economics in general, with special emphasis on issues and fields that are relevant to economic policies in developing economies. The volumes are published ...

La crisis financiera y la recesión de 2008-2009 exigieron importantes medidas de política de parte de los bancos centrales. Entre los países con metas de inflación, surge la pregunta natural sobre si sus esquemas de política monetaria mostraron la flexibilidad necesaria para hacer frente a estos ...

Utilizando un método reciente para medir los efectos derrame (spillovers) en los mercados financieros, ofrecemos un análisis empírico de los derrames de retornos y volatilidades en cinco mercados de valores del continente americano: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México y EE.UU. Los resultados indican que ...

Este artículo explora qué tan bien ancladas están las expectativas inflacionarias de largo plazo en Canadá, Chile, y EE.UU., a través de un estudio de eventos de alta frecuencia. Se usan datos diarios de compensación inflacionaria forward de largo plazo como indicadores de cómo percibe el mercado ...

La literatura reciente sobre las interrupciones súbitas de los flujos de capitales estudia las bruscas y variadas reversiones de la cuenta financiera que han experimentado muchas economías emergentes. El presente artículo argumenta que el comportamiento de los flujos brutos de capital aporta más ...