This paper analyzes the role played by BancoEstado in providing credit during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. An analysis of the data shows that BancoEstado increased its credit significantly, particularly in terms of loans to firms, increasing its market share and remaning profitable. A large...

In 1975 Chile implemented an ortodox stabilization program. The fiscal deficit was sharply reduced and monetary policy was tight. However, indexation of wages and the exchange rate to past inflation implied that inflation only gradually declined. In fact,

This paper investigates the short run effect of a change in the relative price of imports to exports, in a context of specific capital and labor movement subject to adjustment costs. We present a graphical and mathematical (dynamic) analysis of the adjust

This paper studies the impact of fiscal policy on economic activity by using Chilean annual data from 1833 to 2000. The data allows us to disentangle the impacts on economic activity -- due to the large variation in fiscal policy in the period under study -- by using a SVAR methodology. The...

Este trabajo evalúa los impactos de la política fiscal sobre la evolución de la actividad económica (PIB) en Chile. Los resultados del análisis dinámico con la metodología de VAR estructural indican efectos no keynesianos de la política fiscal. Un aumento (reducción) en el gasto fiscal...

In this paper we study the heterodox stabilization plans of Argentina 1985 (Plan Austral) and Brazil 1986 (Plan Cruzado). Both plans considered that the main cause of inflation was inertia, due to indexation of wages, exchange rates and financial instrume