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Policy responses to external shocks: the experiences of Australia, Brazil, and Chile
Open economies, particularly emerging markets and commodityintensive economies, deal with large external shocks. These are typically of a financial nature in the case of the former and real—in that they affect the terms of trade—in the case of the latter. Alternative policy reactions and policy setups ...
Política monetaria en el límite cero: la experiencia de Chile
Se analizan los efectos de la Facilidad de Liquidez a Plazo (FLAP), ejecutado por el Banco Central de Chile en respuesta a la crisis financiera de 2008-2009. Encontramos que el anuncio de esta política reduce significativamente los rendimientos nominales en el horizonte de política de dos años. Estos ...
External vulnerability and preventive policies: an overview
Emerging market economies endure significantly more macroeconomic volatility than industrial countries. Output volatility in emerging market economies is more than twice as large as that in industrial economies, and consumption volatility is three times as large. Recent studies corroborate the view ...
Autonomía de bancos centrales: la experiencia chilena
Tras una revisión selectiva de la literatura teórica y empírica relativa al desempeño macroeconómico y la autonomía del banco central presentamos nueva evidencia respecto de la relación entre esta última y el coeficiente de traspaso de tipo de cambio a inflación. Luego analizamos, desde distintos ...
Régimen de metas de inflación y credibilidad de la política monetaria en Chile
En este artículo presentamos nueva evidencia de cambios recientes en la dinámica inflacionaria en Chile. Mostramos que las rigideces de precios han aumentado, mientras el grado de indexación a la inflación pasada ha decrecido a lo largo del tiempo. También mostramos que el traspaso del tipo de cambio ...
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. ...
Respuestas de política a shocks externos en Australia, Brasil y Chile
Las economías abiertas, especialmente las emergentes y las exportadoras de productos primarios, tienen que hacer frente a grandes shocks externos. Las reacciones de política y el marco de política económica pueden potencialmente amplificar o atenuar las consecuencias de estos shocks. En este trabajo ...
Aspectos no ricardianos de la política fiscal en Chile
Este artículo analiza los efectos no ricardianos de los shocks al gasto fiscal en Chile. Comenzamos presentando evidencia de tales efectos basados en vectores autorregresivos. Luego mostramos que dicha evidencia puede modelarse en un modelo que contemple: (i) una fracción considerable de hogares no ...
Uso de análisis factorial dinámico
En este trabajo se aplica la metodología desarrollada por Stocky Watson (1998) de análisis factorial dinámico en el proceso de proyección de la inflación (IPC) y de actividad económica (Imacec) para la economía Chilena. Nuestros resultados indican que el uso de factores, los cuales se interpretan como ...
Monetary policy under financial turbulence: an overview
The financial crisis that started in 2007 brought the global economy to the brink and in many respects it is still unfolding especially in Europe. How to understand and deal with the crisis has naturally been the subject of fierce debates that continue today. However some consensus appears to be ...
Non-ricardian aspects of fiscal policy in Chile
In this paper we examine the effects of government spending shocks in the Chilean economy. The study of the effects of such shocks in an emerging market economy is of special interest because of the potential presence of non-Ricardian households that is households that do not own any assets or have ...
Monetary policy at the zero lower bound: the Chilean experience
The global financial crisis that started in 2008 dramatically changed the analysis and implementation of monetary policy worldwide. Central banks were at the center of the stage during that time implementing both conventional and unconventional policies. Not only were monetary policy rates drastically ...
Credibility and inflation targeting in Chile
After a long history of high and volatile inflation, the Central Bank of Chile began implementing its monetary policy in the early 1990s by announcing yearly targets for inflation. This new framework was the first step toward a full-fledged inflation-targeting setup, although the Central Bank continued ...
Fiscal policy and macroeconomic performance: an overview
After two decades of relative neglect fiscal policy is back at the center of the economics research agenda. The fiscal developments around the global financial crisis of 2007–09 are undoubtedly a major factor behind that comeback. The large fiscal stimulus packages adopted by many countries in the ...