availability of private schools in Chile. Given that naïve estimates of the effects of competition on student outcomes are biased …

Chile put into place broad free trade agreements (FTAs) with its two major trading partners: the EU (effective 2003 … Chile's high initial trade openness; aggregate output and consumption do not exceed 1% in any given period. On impact, the …

The empirical literature developed to evaluate the voucher system in Chile faced, up until late 1999, methodological …

The per capita growth rate of Chile from 1984 to 1997 was among the highest in the world. During recent years, however … which factors are used, measured as total factor productivity (TFP), to explain the evolution of output in Chile during the …

By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this … forecast error variance in inflation at the 12-month horizon. While the contemporaneous correlation between inflation and … relative price asymmetry is positive, idiosyncratic shocks lead to a substantial build-up in inflation only after two to five …

sub indexes’ inflation dynamics indicate that the exchange rate pass-through in the perfectly competitive sector is … sector. Also, that inflation inertia is lower in the former than in the latter; adding up in more volatility of the perfectly … competitive inflation rate. For policy makers an interesting feature of the perfectly competitive price index is that the evidence …

controversies surrounding the exchange rate forecastability and the absence of money in models of inflation …

greatly redcues the prediction mean squared error of forecasts of U.S. CPI inflation at horizons of one month and one year …