El año 1925 fue particularmente importante para Chile. En lo político institucional además de producirse el convulsionado fin del gobierno de Alessandri se promulgó una nueva constitución que reemplazó a la de 1833 y que regiría durante gran parte del siglo XX. Se crearon varias instituciones que ...

Central banks are very interested in investigating questions surrounding inequality and its relationship with monetary policy. This is arguably for very good reasons. First of all, inequality has become a central issue in many countries. It is therefore important to ask how central-bank policies ...

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 ...

Monetary policy must consider the bi­directional relationship between the economy and its central bank. It should therefore address two essential questions: first, how changes in the economy induce a reaction by the central bank, and second, how these policy changes are in turn transmitted to the ...

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. While a fierce debate continues on how to understand and deal with the crisis, a consensus is emerging with regard to the originating shocks, the mechanisms ...

The financial developments of the last decade have had a large impact on the range of risk diversification contracts available to investors. Based on these complex instruments, the investment possibility frontier was shifted outward and increasingly intricate networks were created. At the same time, ...

Since the global financial crisis of 2008–09 many of the leading central banks have dramatically increased the size of their balance sheets and have shifted the composition of the assets that they hold toward larger shares of longer-term securities (as well as toward assets that are riskier in other ...

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 ...

The institution of central-bank independence is often lauded as a great conquest of the accumulation of knowledge and the sensible setting of policy. The economic literature is filled with arguments for why an independent central bank would lead to better outcomes. To this prior, the experience of ...

El régimen de padrón oro estuvo vigente en Chile entre comienzos de 1926 y julio de 1931. Coincidió entonces con la apertura del Banco Central y se prolongó hasta la crisis económica y política que culminó en julio de 1931 cuando se suspendió la libre convertibilidad del peso y cayó el gobierno de ...