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Government spending and the real exchange rate: a cross-country perspective
There is no consensus about the economic implications of real exchange rate (RER) misalignments. Some authors argue that keeping the real exchange rate away from its equilibrium level creates distortions in the relative prices of tradable and nontradable goods generating misleading signals to economic ...
Inflation targeting in Brazil: shocks, backward-looking prices, and IMF conditionality
In mid-January 1990, Brazil abandoned its crawling exchange rate band. Surprisingly enough, the country's economic performance in the aftermath of this episode was much better than expected, given the performance of other emerging market economies after a move toward floating. Despite the large ...
Captial controls and foreign exchange policy
The question of whether capital controls should be part of the tool box for policymakers to deal with capital flows has become one of the central issues in the international economic policy debate. It was one of the key policy issues in the G20 under the French Presidency in 2011 and it has been covered ...
Currency mismatches in chilean nonfinancial corporations
The potential financial vulnerability that can occur when private sector or government agents acquire high levels of foreign currency debt has been at the center of discussion since the financial crises that affected the countries of Southeast Asia in the late 1990s. To the extent that a mismatch is ...
Controles de capital y política cambiaria
El análisis empírico de este estudio sugiere que un objetivo de política cambiaria y el temor de un sobrecalentamiento de la economía nacional han sido los dos motivos más importantes para la (re) introducción y persistencia de los controles de capital de la última década. Los controles de capital se ...
The macroeconomic conseguences of wage indexation revisited
Since the mid-1970s, the macroeconomic consequences of wage indexation has been the subject of considerable research. Starting with an enthusiastic proposal for indexation by Friedman (1974) and two influential papers by Gray (1976) and Fischer (1977), the academic literature has examined the effects ...
Descalces cambiarios en firmas chilenas no financieras
Usando una nueva base de datos que incluye la composición por monedas de activos y pasivos de firmas del sector no financiero, este estudio analiza los efectos y determinantes de los descalces cambiarios en Chile. En línea con estudios anteriores, encontramos que después de una depreciación real, las ...
Determinantes de la exposición cambiaria de las empresas Chilenas
Se examina el impacto de las fluctuaciones del tipo de cambio sobre el valor de las empresas no financieras en Chile. Utilizando un conjunto de datos detallados sobre las actividades externas y el uso de derivados monetarios por parte de las empresas, se analizan los determinantes potenciales de la ...
Monetary policy, interest rate rules, and inflation targeting: some basic equivalences
Monetary policy in small open economies is typically cast as a choice between an exchange rate anchor (fixed or predetermined exchange rates) and a money anchor (floating exchange rates). Under such regimes, the growth rate of the nominal anchor is set according to the desired long-run inflation rate. ...
Is the foreign exchange derivatives market effective and efficient in reducing currency risk?
Floating foreign exchange rates have gained increased support as a preferred system for reducing the vulnerability of emerging markets to external shocks. The volatility associated with floating exchange rates, however, exposes economic agents to the risk of changes in the valuation of the financial ...