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Los desafíos del crecimiento económico: una visión general
Este artículo se enmarca dentro de la conferencia 'Los Desafíos del Crecimiento Económico' organizada por el Banco Central de Chile en noviembre del 2001. El trabajo sintetiza la evolución y el estado actual de la literatura económica sobre el crecimiento y discute de manera crítica los principales ...
Una mirada desagregada al deterioro de la productividad en Chile: ¿existe un cambio estructural?
La evolución reciente de la productividad ha sido un rompecabezas para los economistas. Después de un periodo marcado por un crecimiento histórico (1987-1997), la productividad agregada se estancó (1998- 2012). El análisis de este trabajo se circunscribe a estudiar la productividad en nueve grandes ...
The war of ideas in economic development: a historical perspective
In the early 1970s when he had barely turned thirty years old Vittorio Corbo was already a legend of sorts among development economists. His dissertation at M.I.T. became an instant classic a work that had to be read by anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of inflation in developing nations. ...
Fiscal policy debt crises and economic growth
It is very well known that growth rates play a role in debt dynamics. Despite this widespread knowledge real world narratives of public debt crises often focus almost exclusively on budget deficits and neglect the role of growth. This paper presents the simplest arithmetic possible to illustrate how ...
A toolkit for analyzing alternative policies in the chilean economy
As noted by Leeper (1995) “the business pages of leading newspapers give the impression that the effects of alternative monetary policies on the macroeconomy are well understood and predictable.” They tend “to write with great certainty that when the monetary authority raises interest rates it slows ...
The effects of business cycles on growth
This paper explores the links between business cycles and long-run growth. Although it is clear from a theoretical point of view that both of these phenomena are driven by the same macroeconomic variables, the interaction between economic fluctuations and growth has been largely ignored in the academic ...
Crecimiento económico en Chile: presente, pasado y futuro
El crecimiento económico ha sido tema clave durante las últimas dos décadas. Las considerables ventajas de los países que han logrado sostener tasas elevadas de crecimiento durante largos períodos, y que hoy disfrutan de niveles de ingreso destacados a nivel mundial, motiva a estudiar de qué manera ...