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Sovereign debt, volatility, and insurance
International capital inflows should, in theory, enable emerging market economies to reduce the volatility of private and public consumption in the presence of income volatility, in addition to allowing foreign savings to finance domestic capital accumulation. Access to international financial markets ...
Introducción: análisis empírico del ahorro en Chile
El ahorro es un viejo tema en Chile. Cada vez que se pone escaso el financiamiento externo, como ha ocurrido en forma recurrente a lo largo de nuestra historia, nos lamentamos de que no ahorramos lo suficiente como para sustentar una tasa de inversión razonable. Cada vez que hay abundante financiamiento ...
Una nota sobre el rol estabilizador del flujo de capitales
La teoría de economías competitivas bajo incertidumbre explica que, para individuos como Chile, con un perfil de ingresos creciente, pero a tasas altamente volátiles, inserto en un mundo de—en general— menor volatilidad, los beneficios de participar en mercados internacionales de capital pueden ...
Optimal inflation targeting under alternative fiscal regimes
Inflation targeting has become an increasingly popular approach to the conduct of monetary policy worldwide since the early 1990s. Most of the countries that have adopted inflation targeting judge the experiment favorably, at least thus far. In many countries, the adoption of inflation targeting has ...
Monetary policy, interest rate rules, and inflation targeting: some basic equivalences
Monetary policy in small open economies is typically cast as a choice between an exchange rate anchor (fixed or predetermined exchange rates) and a money anchor (floating exchange rates). Under such regimes, the growth rate of the nominal anchor is set according to the desired long-run inflation rate. ...
Indexation, inflation, and monetary policy: an overview
Indexation policies and practices are common in many markets and economies. In most cases, price adjustment mechanisms arise in private contracts as a consequence of high and pervasive inflation. Sometimes governments also play an important role in promoting the use of indexation in their issues of ...
Policy rules and external shocks
The decade since 1990 has been a period of innovation in monetary policy. Around the world, many countries have adopted inflation targeting as their basic policy framework. Different countries have tried different techniques for achieving inflatio targets, such as different choices of policy instruments.
The 1997-98 liquidity crisis: Asia versus Latin America
Four years after its outbreak, the Asian crisis continues to confound experts: a region whose countries had long been considered paragons of successful economic development is mired in financial collapse and deep recession. By contrast, Latin America -with the important exceptions of Brazil and Ecuador- ...
Estimaciones de los determinantes del ahorro voluntario de los hogares en Chile (1988 y 1997)
En la literatura sobre ahorro (consumo) coexisten un conjunto amplio de estudios que utilizan información agregada con un grupo de investigaciones y metodologías que usan datos de origen microeconómico. Lo anterior se explica porque el estudio empírico del ahorro plantea el dilema de ocupar datos ...
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 ...