En este estudio desarrollamos y estimamos un modelo de equilibrio general para ver la relevancia del mercado accionario a nivel agregado en la economía chilena para el período 1997/2009. El modelo es del tipo nuevo Keynesiano que además de la rigidez estándar en precios incorpora fricciones...

Este artículo analiza cualitativa y cuantitativamente el desarrollo de las tomas de control corporativo con posterioridad a la promulgación de la Ley de OPAS y Gobiernos Corporativos, promulgada en el año 2000, siendo uno de sus objetivos el establecer los efectos que dicha ley tuvo sobre el...

Este documento de trabajo analiza la estructura competitiva de la industria de fondos mutuos en Chile en base a un modelo modificado del tipo estructura – conducta – desempeño, en donde se toma en consideración las barreras de entrada, existencia de sustitutos, diferenciación del...

The main purpose of this article is to briefly present the Keynesian explanation of business cycle, economic fluctuation and crises, and also the solutions proposed from Keynesian perspective to the economic problems that characterize the bust phases of the business cycles (unemployment,...

Although the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 was the worst economic crisis in over 60 years for many industrial countries, most Asian and Pacific developing countries weathered it quite successfully. The resilience of the region is somewhat puzzling at first sight. In an increasingly...

This article underlines the restrictive perspective of the neo-keynesian research program of "microdoundations of unemployment", compared to the keynesian project of a general theory which would marginalize the classical cases. This neo-keynesian program has first restricted the interpretation...

This paper presents an econometric analysis of 65 episodes of fiscal adjustment in the OECD from 1960 through 1992. The episodes are the ones that Perotti (1995) has identified as entailing major reductions of previous deficits. The paper estimates the effect on the growth of GDP and of...

La tesis central de este trabajo es que un proceso exitoso de desarrollo capitalistanacional, en el contexto de un mercado mundial caracterizado por la existenciade múltiples monedas nacionales y dividido en países desarrollados hegemónicosdel Primer Mundo y países subdesarrollados...

After 10 years of abstinence from the European Monetary Union, should the UK be seriously thinking about joining the Eurozone? Especially in view of the European Central Bank's improved reputation as a crisis manager in the wake of the financial crisis, could EMU represent a safe haven for the...

Orthodox and heterodox theories of financial crises are hereby compared from a theoretical viewpoint, with emphasis on their genesis. The former view (represented by the fourth-generation models of Paul Krugman) reflects the neoclassical vision whereby turbulence is an exception; the latter...