This paper provides a description of some of the empirical regularities for the Mexican business cycle. The purpose is to have a benchmark for assessing dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for the Mexican case. We follow the Kydland and Prescott methodology to describe the cyclical...

We analyze the effects of macroeconomic fluctuations, as well as episodes of financial instability and inflation, on inequality indicators in Chile for the period 1960-2014. The relationship between episodes of crisis and fluctuations on levels of inequality are estimated from an event study,...

The existence of incomplete financial markets, in an environment of uncertainty, is one of the problems of the Latin American economies, that determines a suboptimal path of public spending, with the consequent loss of social welfare. The existence of a high degree of positive correlation...

This paper provides a description of some of the empirical regularities for the Mexican business cycle. The purpose is to have a benchmark for assessing dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for the Mexican case. We follow the Kydland and Prescott methodology to describe the cyclical...

Spanish Abstract: En este artículo se analizan los efectos de fluctuaciones macroeconómicas, así como episodios de inestabilidad financiera e inflacionaria, sobre indicadores de desigualdad en Chile para el período 1960-2014. La relación entre los episodios de crisis y fluctuaciones sobre...

Spanish Abstract: Este documento presenta un cálculo del Costo de uso del capital para Colombia en el periodo 1990-2007. Seguidamente, contrasta este cálculo con la dinámica de la inversión en el mismo periodo. Se encuentra que la relación entre inversión y costo de uso es muy estrecha, y...

Spanish Abstract: Esta investigación evalúa el poder predictivo de una familia de modelos GARCH usados en la predicción de la volatilidad de los rendimientos de la Mezcla Mexicana de Exportación durante el periodo del 2 de enero de 1989 al 30 de diciembre de 2011. Los resultados empíricos...

English Abstract: This article analyzes the factors that have influenced the volume of GDP in Spain during theperiod 2002-2019. The objective of the work is to present a methodology to determine thecontribution of different variables to the variation of GDP from one year to another.Spanish...