En este artÌculo, analizamos las transmisiones de shocks desde los principales mercados burs·tiles desarrollados, incluyendo Tokio, New York, ParÌs y Frankfurt hacia el mercado de Santiago, controlando por el mercado de Sao Paulo. Esta investigaciÛn se concentra en los recientes episodios de...

The Chilean Electronic Market for Annuities was created in 2004 in order to correct several malfunctions of the market for annuities. The Chilean Pension System is composed of two phases. On the accumulation phase, savings are collected and managed by asset managers. The payout phase consists in...

The domestic impact of external shocks will depend on the degree of coupling of domestic assets to foreign markets, but also on the spillovers among assets. The covariance between different types of assets could be affected by the new information. Changes in the covariance could come from a...

This paper analyzes econometrically the determinants of ownership concentration in the Chilean stock market, with particular attention to the e¤ects of the Tender Offer Law (OPA law). Even though the central pourpose of OPAs Law is achieved, the tender offer mechanism increases the ownership...

Empirical analyses of annuities markets have been limited to a few industrial countries and restricted by data limitations. Chile provides excellent conditions for research on annuities because of the depth of its market and the availability of data. The authors use an extensive dataset on...

Empirical analyses of annuities markets have been limited to a few industrial countries and restricted by data limitations. Chile provides excellent conditions for research on annuities because of the depth of its market and the availability of data. The authors use a panel of life insurance...

Despite the important role that total factor productivity (TFP) has played in growth literature, few attempts have been made to change the methodology to estimate it. This paper proposes a methodology based on state–space model to estimate TFP and its determinants. With this methodology it is...

"Empirical analyses of annuities markets have been limited to a few industrial countries and restricted by data limitations. Chile provides excellent conditions for research on annuities because of the depth of its market and the availability of data. The authors use a panel of life insurance...