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Laudatio of Vittorio Corbo
Vittorio Corbo is one of Latin America’s outstanding economists and like some of his peers in the region his contributions and his influence includes academia but goes well beyond academia. While academic economists in developed countries tend to focus more narrowly on research and teaching the diversity ...
Global liquidity, spillovers to emerging markets and policy responses
The Book Series on "Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies" of the Central Bank of Chile publishes new research on central banking and economics in general, with special emphasis on issues and fields that are relevant to economic policies in developing economies. The volumes are published ...
El crecimiento de Chile explicado a través de un modelo de convergencia condicional
En este trabajo examinamos qué explica el crecimiento económico de Chile entre 1960 y 2014 a la luz de un modelo de convergencia condicional. Además, hacemos un cálculo del crecimiento para la siguiente década basado en estimaciones alternativas del modelo y en supuestos para las variables determinantes ...
Global imbalances and external adjustment after the crisis
Over five years have passed since the most intense phase of the global financial crisis. As has been widely documented the pre-crisis period was characterized by increased dispersion in current account deficits and surpluses facilitated by a benign global financial environment characterized by low ...
Desafíos del manejo de la liquidez y de los activos internacionales en latinoamérica
Analizamos la creciente importancia de los fondos soberanos y la difusión de las metas de inflación y reglas de Taylor aumentadas y su impacto sobre el ajuste de los países latinoamericanos a los desafíos planteados por shocks financieros y de términos de intercambio post crisis. Confirmamos que la ...
Exchange rate structural fiscal balance and copper price: a puzzle
Chile’s exchange rate shows a strong volatility to copper price fluctuations. This correlation is essentially because copper is our main export product therefore increases in the price of copper imply higher returns from copper export volumes both for private and the stateowned mining company Codelco. ...
Asset bubbles and sudden stops in a small open economy
One of the most striking features of the world economy over the last twenty-five years has been the sharp decline in the real interest rate from approximately 4% in the early 1990s to -1.5% in 2013 (figure 1). During this period there have been two waves of large capital inflows into emerging economies ...
Medición del riesgo (neutral) cambiario chileno: incorporación de la información de mercado de las opciones
Existen diversos trabajos que calculan y predicen la volatilidad del tipo de cambio y la probabilidad de su variación utilizando la información histórica de su evolución. Típicamente, la volatilidad se ha calculado utilizando modelos GARCH. Asimismo, se ha utilizado la percepción de los agentes de ...
A caricature (model) of the world economy
This paper provides an extremely stylized model of the workings of a global economy where one of its key driving factors is economic agents’ continuous struggle to find assets to park financial resources. This struggle naturally comes with euphoria and disappointments as many of the 'parking lots' are ...
Financial reforms and capital flows: insights from general equilibrium
How are capital flows affected by financial reforms that relax credit constraints and raise the ability of domestic firms to borrow? At first glimpse one might be tempted to dismiss the question as trivial. If some domestic firms are credit constrained (which we assume to be the case!) relaxing their ...