Globalization, which involves progressive integration of countries’ economies, has resulted in an increasing number of people moving from one country to another, without losing their ties to their original home economies. Increasingly, immigrants are sending money to their home countries...

This document presents the methodology and results of project “National Accounts by Institutional Sectors” (NA-IS) at quarterly frequency, launched in 2008 and developed within the framework of the Systems of National Accounts and as part of an action plan for closing statistics gaps...

Globalization, which involves progressive integration of countries’ economies, has resulted in an increasing number of people moving from one country to another, without losing their ties to their original home economies. Increasingly, immigrants are sending money to their home countries...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the Chilean foreign exchange market in an international context from 2001 to 2010, in respect of three blocks of economies: advanced, emerging and Latin American. Aspects of deepness, liquidity and the international financial integration level are...

This paper presents the methodology to estimate foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics by type of economic activity and country. The Central Bank of Chile compiles and prepares FDI statistics under the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position´s Framework (International...

The main objective of this working paper is presents the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) 2008, based on official Chilean national accounts published in 2011 and 2012. Besides, this work allows three complementary objectives, did not found in most of the SAMs publications: a) including non...

Inflation expectations are usually obtained from the swaps market or from the so called inflation insurance. Often times both measures give similar results, however, given the difference in the settlement structure these results may differ. This document presents the settlement structure of...

The establishment of reference compilation 2008, in December 2011, resulted in the upgrade of the national accounts series since 2008. It also involved the development of a comprehensive backward data-chain process for the period 2003-2008, to give the public timely longest historical series,...

This paper presents the main concepts relating to lending statistics published by the Central Bank of Chile (CBC), intended to facilitate its understanding and analysis by the general public. This, within a context of growing market’s need to understand and rely on a timely, comprehensive...

Wide interest rate differentials between economies may generate attractive investment opportunities. However, these operations could cause major disruptions in foreign exchange markets, such as excessive volatility in the exchange rate due to overexposure to speculative flows. The investment...