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Capital inflows and books in asset prices: evidence from a panel of countries
Policymakers and academics often believe that large capital inflows are associated with booms in asset prices and therefore with a higher risk of financial crisis. The belief is supported by the theoretical works of Krugman (1998) Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2006) Aoki Benigno and Kiyotaki (2009) ...
Concentración, hold-up e información de las colocaciones bancarias: evidencia de empresas Chilenas
El artículo contiene un estudio empírico de la relación banco-cliente, basado en una muestra de empresas manufactureras Chilenas. En él se analiza si la concentración y la duración de la relación entre deudor y acreedor afectan el volumen de endeudamiento bancario. Los resultados indican que la menor ...
Exchange rate interventions and insurance: is fear of floating a cause for concern?
Fear of floating has recently come to be seen as one of the central de facto characteristics of exchange rate regimes in emerging markets, after first being identified by Calvo and Reinhart (2002). The interpretation of this phenomenon is still open to question. Does the optimal monetary regime for ...
A decade of debt
Public debts in the advanced economies have surged in recent years to levels that have not been recorded since the end of World War II. Through 2010 the average public debt/GDP ratio for all the advanced economies has surpassed the pre-World War II peaks reached during the World War I and subsequently ...
Complementariedad entre un impuesto de tasa plana y subsidios monetarios para mejorar la distribución del ingreso en Chile
Este estudio analiza políticas redistributivas de Chile asociadas al establecimiento de un impuesto a la renta del tipo flat tax, y la ampliación del 'ingreso ético familiar', utilizando un modelo de equilibrio general computable dinámico combinado con microsimulaciones. Los resultados muestran que, ...
On current account surpluses and the correction of global imbalances
The United States has run an increasingly large current account deficit over the last few years. J. P. Morgan forecasts that in 2007 the deficit will reach almost one trillion dollars, or 7 percent of GDP. This unprecedented situation has generated concern among analysts and policymakers. Many argue ...
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 ...
Indización: rasgos históricos en Chile y experiencia internacional
Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos. Primero, revisar la historia de la indización en Chile a partir de 1938 interpretando los cambios que se han producido dentro del contexto histórico, político y económico de las diferentes etapas del desarrollo económico del país. Segundo, a través de la revisión de ...
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 ...
General equilibrium analysis of a fuel tax increase in Chile
Achieving economic growth has been an important issue for over half a century. More recently, developed countries have incorporated the need for a more equitable and environmentally balanced growth. The complexity of modeling an economy with all its interrelations, agents, and sectors, however, has ...