The authors evaluate inflation forecasts from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) of the Central Bank of Chile. Forecast errors for the period 2000-2008 show an excess of autocorrelation and a statistically significant bias at the end of the sample. The authors take advantage of the...

We evaluate inflation forecasts from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) of the Central Bank of Chile. Forecast errors for the period 2000-2008 show an excess of autocorrelation and a statistically significant bias at the end of the sample. We take advantage of the bias and...

En este informe se estudia la evolución del sistema de pensiones de Chile en el período 2000-2017 analizando su institucionalidad, su gasto público y su sostenibilidad financiera. Forma parte de un proyecto de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) que busca estudiar...

We test whether the availability of the emergency contraceptive (“morning after”) pill in the absence of legalised abortion can have effects similar to those of other large-scale contraceptive reforms. To do so we examine a quasi-experimental policy reform occurring in Chile in 2008. Using...