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Cambios estructurales en la demanda por trabajo en Chile
La capacidad de generar empleo en la economía Chilena ha sido sorpresivamente lenta durante 2000 y 2001. A pesar de que el crecimiento del producto ha sido positivo desde agosto de 1999 la tasa de desempleo no ha disminuido como se esperaba. Una hipótesis que se ha levantado para explicar este fenómeno ...
Stocks, flows, and valuation effects of foreign assets and liabilities: do they matter?
Globalization has changed the way countries interact along several dimensions. Financial integration and its underpinnings are probably among the most important. Although cross-border capital flows and external debt have been closely monitored, until recently little was known about the stocks of foreign ...
The sources of economic growth: an overview
The importance of economic growth cannot be overstated. Income growth is ssential for achieving economic, social, and even political development. Countries that grow strongly and for sustained periods of time are able to reduce their poverty levels significantly, strengthen their democratic and political ...
Cointegración estacional en la demanda por dinero
Las estimaciones tradicionales de la demanda de dinero presentan problemas característicos: inestabilidad de los parámetros estimados, inconsistencia con los modelos teóricos y baja capacidad predictiva (Goldfeld y Sichel, 1990). Este trabajo explora en qué medida un tratamiento inadecuado de los ...
Un test conjunto de superioridad predictiva para los pronósticos de inflación Chilena
Habitualmente se construyen pronósticos de inflación en distintos momentos del tiempo y a base de conjuntos de información diferentes. Cabría esperar que un pronóstico construido sobre la base de un conjunto de información mayor, fuese más preciso que otro construido a base de un conjunto de información ...
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 ...
Large hoardings of international reserves: are they worth it?
Several Asian economies have accumulated large stocks of international reserves over the last few years. This motivates the question we address in this paper from an empirical point of view. Are these large increases in reserves an efficient crisis-prevention strategy? Or are they second-best to other ...
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, ...
The relationship between exchange rates and inflation targeting revisited
For decades, the exchange rate was at the center of macroeconomic policy debates in emerging markets. Many countries used the nominal exchange rate to bring down inflation, –others—mostly in Latin America—used the exchange rate to implicitly tax the export sector. Currency crises were common and usually ...
Expectations, learning and monetary policy: an overview of recent research
The conduct of monetary policy in terms of interest rate or other rules has been extensively studied in recent research. This literature gives a central role to forecasts of future inflation and output, and the question of whether monetary policy should be forward- ooking has been subject to discussion ...