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Local impacts of trade liberalization: evidence from the chilean agricultural sector
Protectionist trade policies aim at shielding some sectors— typically but not exclusively manufacturing—from international competition. In doing so they may produce unintended consequences. In particular they tend to create some taxed sectors that use protected inputs usually in the agricultural sector ...
El ahorro y el consumo de bienes durables frente al ciclo económico ¿consumismo, frugalidad, racionalidad?
En la literatura económica el comportamiento del ahorro ha sido analizado desde diversas ópticas. Una de ellas es la que vincula el ahorro agregado nacional con el crecimiento económico. Una versión simple de este enfoque (que además asume acceso imperfecto al mercado de capitales internacional) señala ...
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 ...
Exchange rate interventions and insurance: is fear of floating a cause for concern?
Fear of floating has recently come to be seen as one of the central de facto characteristics of exchange rate regimes in emerging markets, after first being identified by Calvo and Reinhart (2002). The interpretation of this phenomenon is still open to question. Does the optimal monetary regime for ...
Capital controls in Chile: were they effective?
Controls on international capital flows have no place in a world without policy distortions and markt failures. Capital controls can only be justified as second-best measures to compensate for nonremovable policy distortions, including inadequate regulation and supervision of the financial and corporate ...
General equilibrium dynamics of external shocks and policy changes in Chile
This paper explores Chile’s macroeconomic dynamics with the help of a general equilibrium model parameterized for the Chilean economy. The model is based on microanalytic foundations, and its basic relations are derived from intertemporal optimization by a group of forward-looking agents endowed with ...