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Pegs downward wage rigidity and unemployment: the role of financial structure
A characteristic of the current crisis in Europe is that countries in its periphery have found themselves increasingly cut off from international financial markets. In the present study we ask how such changes in the financial structure influence the welfare consequences of maintaining a fixed exchange ...
Asset bubbles and sudden stops in a small open economy
One of the most striking features of the world economy over the last twenty-five years has been the sharp decline in the real interest rate from approximately 4% in the early 1990s to -1.5% in 2013 (figure 1). During this period there have been two waves of large capital inflows into emerging economies ...
Corporate saving in global rebalancing
The increase in global imbalances in the last decade posed a theoretical challenge for international macroeconomics. Why did some less developed countries with a higher need for capital like China lend to richer countries? The inconsistency of standard dynamic open-economy models with actual global ...
Global imbalances and external adjustment after the crisis
Over five years have passed since the most intense phase of the global financial crisis. As has been widely documented the pre-crisis period was characterized by increased dispersion in current account deficits and surpluses facilitated by a benign global financial environment characterized by low ...
Sobre el nivel de reservas internacionales de Chile: análisis a partir de enfoques complementarios
Este artículo analiza la evolución y el nivel de reservas internacionales de Chile a partir de metodologías complementarias. En primer lugar, construimos diversos indicadores de reservas internacionales sugeridos por la literatura para un conjunto de países avanzados y emergentes. Segundo, estimamos ...
La crisis financiera global y contagio a mercados emergentes
Estudiamos el efecto de los vínculos entre bancos en el contagio de los ciclos productivos con un enfoque específico en la propagación de la crisis de 2007-2009 desde los países avanzados hacia los emergentes. En una muestra de pares de países compuesta de 17 economías avanzadas y 11 emergentes entre ...
The leverage cycle default and foreclosure
At least since the time of Irving Fisher economists as well as the general public have regarded the interest rate as the most important variable in the economy. But in times of crisis collateral rates (margins or leverage equivalently) are far more important. Despite the cries of newspapers to lower ...
Política macroprudencial: promesas y desafíos
La política macroprudencial encierra la promesa de convertirse en una herramienta poderosa para prevenir crisis financieras. Una amplificación financiera como respuesta a un shock local o a un contagio global y externalidades pecuniarias causadas por restricciones de colateral fisherianas, entrega un ...
Transmisión de shocks y acoplamiento con mercados accionarios externos: efectos asimétricos y quiebre estructural
Analizamos la transmisión de shocks desde los principales mercados bursátiles desarrollados —Tokio, Nueva York, París y Frankfurt— hacia el mercado de Santiago, controlando por el de Sao Paulo. Nuestra investigación se concentra en los episodios de 2007 y 2008, donde la transmisión pasó desde los ...