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Inflation targeting in financially stable economies: has it been flexible enough?
The international financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008- 09 called for a range of significant policy measures by central banks beyond aggressive interest rate cuts. Measures have ranged from improving international coordination to purchasing local private loan portfolios and direct intervention ...
Why are capital flows so much more volatile in emerging than in developed countries?
One of the most studied subjects in open macroeconomics is what determines capital flows. In general, most papers are concerned with estimating the following regression. where the left-hand side is some measurement of capital flows, either as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) or as changes, ...
Indexation of public debt: analytical considerations and an application to the case of Brazil
Since the implementation of the Real Plan of 1994, the Brazilian economy has been in the process of reducing its degree of indexation. For more than three decades, Brazilian wages, rents, financial securities, and other contracts were indexed to the price level. The frequency of adjustment sometimes ...
Sovereign debt, volatility, and insurance
International capital inflows should, in theory, enable emerging market economies to reduce the volatility of private and public consumption in the presence of income volatility, in addition to allowing foreign savings to finance domestic capital accumulation. Access to international financial markets ...
Short-term interest rates and bank lending terms: evidence from a survey of U.S. loans
The long period of low interest rates that followed the global financial crisis has rekindled interest in how short-term interest rates affect bank behavior. In particular it has led to a debate on how low policy rates influence bank risk-taking. This risk-taking channel of monetary policy corresponds ...
New keynesian models for Chile in the inflation-targeting period
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with nominal rigidities have become a popular tool for monetary policy analysis in recent years. The basic sticky price model has been enriched to include additional sources of nominal and real rigidities. These additional elements have been introduced ...
Proyección de la inflación en Chile
Este estudio estima dos modelos para la inflación Chilena con parámetros variables para el período 1990 - 1999. El primero está basado en la curva de Phillips y el segundo, en un modelo para una pequeña economía abierta con meta de inflación. Las proyecciones de inflación fuera de la muestra que se ...
Flexibilidad microeconómica en américa latina
En este artículo se caracteriza el grado de inflexibilidad microeconómica en varios países de América Latina, y se concluye que Brasil, Chile y Colombia son más flexibles que México y Venezuela. Ladiferencia se explica principalmente por el comportamiento de los establecimientos grandes, que seajustan ...
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 ...
Metas de inflación en economías financieramente estables: ¿un sistema suficientemente flexible?
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 ...