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Private information in the mortgage market: evidence and a theory of crises
The securitization boom in the United States mortgage market from 2000 to 2005 was enormous (figure 1). According to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) new issuance of securities backed by mortgages that were not insured by the U.S. government rose by a factor of twelve ...
El efecto de sorpresas en el crecimiento de China sobre el precio del cobre
El rol de China en el comercio global ha recibido gran atención durante la última década. En particular, esta economía ha sido señalada como uno de los principales motores del precio de las materias primas en este período (Cheung y Morin, 2007; FMI, 2006, 2008; Jenkins, 2011; Park y Zhai, 2007; Streifel, ...
Economía chilena
El objetivo de la revista Economía Chilena es ayudar a la divulgación de resultados de investigación, preferentemente aquella realizada en el Banco Central de Chile sobre la economía chilena o temas de importancia para ella, con significativo contenido empírico y/o de relevancia para la conducción de ...
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 ...
Una mirada desagregada al deterioro de la productividad en Chile: ¿existe un cambio estructural?
La evolución reciente de la productividad ha sido un rompecabezas para los economistas. Después de un periodo marcado por un crecimiento histórico (1987-1997), la productividad agregada se estancó (1998- 2012). El análisis de este trabajo se circunscribe a estudiar la productividad en nueve grandes ...
Ahorro empresarial y rebalanceo global
Este trabajo analiza teóricamente cómo el ahorro empresarial de las economías emergentes contribuye hoy al rebalanceo global. Para ello, tomamos un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico de dos países, con un país desarrollado y un país emergente. Las empresas deben ahorrar en activos líquidos para ...
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 ...
Macro-prudential policy and the conduct of monetary policy
The 'Great Contraction' in global economic activity triggered by the financial crisis and the extraordinary fiscal and monetary measures that public authorities had to undertake in order to put the economy back on track by putting public finances under heavy strains and leading to extremely low ...
Capital mobility and monetary policy: an overview
The papers that comprise the different chapters of this volume were presented in the XVII Annual Conference on Central Banking that took place at the Central Bank of Chile Santiago during November 14 and 15 2011. While the global economic environment has changed considerably from the end of 2011 to ...
Monetary policy and macro-prudential regulation: the risk-sharing paradigm
Economic history is replete with episodes of financial crises creating havoc for the real economy. These episodes typically have three important ingredients. First there are large financial flows to finance a bubbling asset class such as sovereigns or housing with 'safe' debt. Second there is a sharp ...