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The relation between monetary policy and financial-stability policy
What is the relation between monetary policy and financialstability policy? How can they be distinguished? How similar or different are they? Should they have the same or different goals? How should they be conducted? Should they be coordinated or conducted separately? Should they be conducted by the ...
Un modelo para evaluar la regla de superávit fiscal estructural de Chile
Este artículo analiza la regla de superávit estructural Chilena frente a los shocks al precio del cobre. Se obtienen dos resultados: primero, la actual regla fiscal funciona bien si la autoridad (i) premia por evitar una volatilidad excesiva de los instrumentos fiscales, y (ii) asigna una ponderación ...
A global safe asset for and from emerging market economies
International capital flows are fickle. Short-term debt funding is especially subject to sudden stops. Sudden flight into safe-haven currencies can cause large disruptions and sharp currency movements ultimately leading to a crisis. When markets shift from a risk-on to a risk-off mood cross-country ...
An anatomy of credit booms and their demise
Episodes in which credit to the private sector rises significantly above its long-run trend (that is 'credit booms') are often associated with periods of economic turbulence. Until recently however efforts at developing methodologies for identifying credit booms and characterizing the economic ...
Propagación de información entre países
La reciente reversión de los flujos de capital hacia los mercados emergentes ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia permanente del problema de las paradas repentinas. Este trabajo analiza estos episodios en economías emergentes desde 1991. Se observa que la frecuencia y la duración de las paradas ...
Cuando los flujos de capital se detienen
El volumen de información que se produce en una economía varía con el tiempo. Se produce más información cuando trae más beneficios, como cuando los agentes prevén un estado en el que muchas empresas arriesgan la quiebra. Las medidas de información basadas en los precios bursátiles comunican hechos ...
Forward guidance in hte yield curve: short rates versis bond supply
Since late 2008 when short-term interest rates reached their zero lower bound central banks have been conducting monetary policy through two primary instruments: quantitative easing (QE) in which they buy long-term government bonds and other long-term securities and so-called forward guidance in which ...
Domestic financial frictions and the transmission of foreign shocks in Chile
In the early 90’s a literature emerged emphasizing the role of external factors in explaining business cycle fluctuations in emerging countries. In particular changes in the terms of trade and world interest rates are generally viewed as the main external factors affecting these economies. Additionally ...
Why do countries have fiscal rules?
Professor Vittorio Corbo in whose honor this conference is organized has an outstanding academic and professional career that spans teaching research policy making and advice provided to the private sector international institutions and governments. In the latter capacity of government advisor he ...
Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
Economies with imperfect financial market access may experience crises that cause significant economic dislocation. These crises are characterized by the sudden stop of domestic or international credit flows and they are associated with large declines in consumption output relative prices and asset ...
Equity market spillovers in the Americas
Many aspects of financial markets merit monitoring in risk management and portfolio allocation contexts, including (and perhaps especially) in contexts of interest to central banks. Much recent attention, for example, has been devoted to measuring and forecasting return volatilities and correlations, ...
El carry trade en mercados industrializados y emergentes
Se revisa la evidencia sobre las ganancias asociadas al carry trade, se explora su relación con el dilema de la paridad de intereses descubierta (PID) y con el comportamiento de las primas por riesgo. Se confirman resultados anteriores en cuanto a que el carry trade es rentable y que la PID no se ...
Proyección de la inflación en Chile: una visión sectorial
Exploramos las ventajas de usar curvas de Phillips en la proyección de la inflación. Para ello, usamos especificaciones convencionales y flexibles que ajustan los datos de cuatro definiciones de inflación: total, subyacente (sin alimentos y energía, SAE) y una partición de esta última en SAE bienes y ...
Heterodox central banking
In response to the current global crisis the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have implemented diverse policy measures including purchasing a wide range of securities lending to financial institutions intervening in foreign exchange markets and paying interest on reserves. ...
Extracting information on economic activity from business and consumer surveys in an emerging economy (Chile)
El presente artículo discute la medida en que las encuestas de percepción a empresas y consumidores contienen información útil para predecir la actividad económica en Chile. Las encuestas utilizadas son las correspondientes a los índices IMCE e IPEC, para las empresas y consumidores, respectivamente. ...
Macroprudential policy: promise and challenges
The developments that led to the 2008 global financial crisis raised a new awareness amongst central banks and financial regulators in advanced economies about the need to approach financial regulation and surveillance from a macroeconomic (i.e. systemic) and prudential (i.e. pre-emptive) perspective. ...
Goverment size misallocation and the resource curse
Structural transformation is a reallocation of labor across sectors. In this paper I investigate the impact of structural transformation in an open economy on sectoral and aggregate productivity with a particular focus on the role of government. While there are potentially many sources of structural ...
La relación entre política monetaria y política de estabilización financiera
Este documento analiza cómo se relaciona la política monetaria con la política de estabilidad financiera, cómo se distinguen, cómo se pueden determinar las metas apropiadas para cada una, si ambas políticas se conducen mejor por separado o de manera coordinada y por las mismas o diferentes autoridades, ...
Monetary policy and global spillovers: mechanisms effects and policy measures: an overview
The global economy of today 'is a small world after all.' The high degree of international trade integration and financial interconnectedness has created tight linkages across most countries even between countries that may be very distant geographically or that may not have significant trade or financial ...
Foreign exchange intervention redux
Arguably no issue in International Macroeconomics exhibits more dissonance between academic research and policy practice than foreign-exchange intervention. The dominant view from academia is that sterilized foreign-exchange (FX) intervention has a tiny if any impact on real variables which makes it ...