Remittances can have a contractive net impact on the recipient economy. In this case the effect of the sterilized intervention of the central bank in the foreign exchange market and/or the impact of stimulus policies on the autonomous demand prevent the contraction of GNP and foments the desired...

The paper analyses the dynamic behaviour of an economy when the central bank (CB) implements an inflation targeting regime. For this purpose, a simple macroeconomic model is constructed and subjected to formal dynamic analysis. A first result is that, under certain conditions, the emergence of...

In this article we will show that independence is not enough to impose a given inflation target when the Central Bank is following a Taylor rule, moreover in such a case, the fiscal authority will be able to set a different objective from the one sought by the monetary authority. On the other...

Se analiza la política monetaria del Banco Central Europeo y su incidencia en las políticas de los países socios.

We analyse the dynamic behaviour of an economy where the central bank (CB) sets interest rates according to a Taylor-type policy rule. A simple model for a closed and instability-prone economy is constructed and subjected to formal dynamical analysis and numerical simulation. It is shown that a...

Spanish Abstract: Desde la expropiación petrolera, y durante varias décadas, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) venía soportando el despegue del sector industrial. Así, a partir de los años 70 ha cumplido principalmente con dos funciones: generar divisa y contribuir en la financiación del gasto...

This paper features an analysis of the e_ectiveness of a range of portfolio diversification strategies as applied to a set of 17 years of monthly hedge fund index returns on a set of ten market indices representing 13 major hedge fund categories, as compiled by the EDHEC Risk Institute. The...

One of the fastest growing areas in empirical finance, and also one of the least rigorously analyzed, especially from a financial econometrics perspective, is the econometric analysis of financial derivatives, which are typically complicated and difficult to analyze. The purpose of this special...

It is common practice to evaluate fixed-event forecast revisions in macroeconomics by regressing current forecast revisions on one-period lagged forecast revisions. Under weak-form (forecast) efficiency, the correlation between the current and one-period lagged revisions should be zero. The...