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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 ...
Macroeconomic and financial stability: an overview
On September 2008 Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and the world became aware that the financial crisis that had been unfolding for months was far more serious than expected. Months later it became clear that the financial crisis of 2008-2009 was the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression ...
Endogenous exchange-rate pass-through and self-validating exchange rate regimes
A long-standing question in open macroeconomics concerns the choice of currency denomination of nominal prices and contracts. A firm serving the export market may choose to set prices in its domestic currency in the currency of the market of destination or in a vehicle currency possibly indexing these ...
Disparidades regionales de la bancarización en Chile. Período 2001-2012
Si bien Chile el país de América Latina con mayor acceso a servicios financieros, es muy dispar en términos espaciales. Nuestro objetivo es medir niveles de bancarización regional en el período 2001-2012 y evaluar diferencias territoriales. Se considera que la bancarización es un fenómeno multivariado ...
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 ...
Managing the capital account
Globalization has been under attack over the last few years. Activists, famous academics, and commentators of various stripes have mounted a systematic campaign against free trade in goods and, especially, in financial claims. One of the latest manifestations of this antiliberalization mood was the ...
A new liquidity risk measure for the Chilean banking sector
El objetivo de este trabajo es construir una medida apropiada del riesgo de liquidez para los bancos Chilenos. Ya existen varias medidas de riesgo de liquidez en la literatura, la mayoría basada en supuestos específicos y en opiniones de expertos. Con el fin de superar los posibles problemas de hacer ...
Competition and stability in banking
Banking went from being one of the most regulated sectors in the economy after the crisis in the 1930s to a more lightly regulated sector with the liberalization process that started in the 1970s in the United States. The previous period was marked by few crises with much more instability in the second ...
Economías de escala y economías de ámbito en el sistema bancario Chileno
En este estudio se estima una función de costos para el sistema bancario Chileno con una muestra que incluye todas las instituciones financieras que operaron durante el período 1989-2000. Se encuentra evidencia a favor de la existencia de economías de escala en bancos de tamaño pequeño, no así para ...
The monetary transmission mechanism in Chile: a medium-sized macroeconometric model
The objective in building and specifying macroeconomic models is to reflect the main characteristics of an economy in a stylized way. This article describes a macroeconometric model for the Chilean economy. The aim of the model is to forecast the main macroeconomic variables, along with policy exercises ...