This paper studies the role of social security on income distribution, capital accumulation and growth in a general equilibrium setup. An Overlapping Generations Model with heterogeneous agents is used. Heterogeneity is introduced by means of different abilities among individuals and non...

This paper studies the effects of exchange rate interventions using daily and intraday data for Chile, from 1998 to 2003. Its main contribution is the recognition of the role played by transparency and public announcements in the success of the intervention policy, through the existence of an...

A central tenet of inflation targeting is that establishing and maintaining well-anchored inflation expectations are essential. In this paper, we reexamine the role of key elements of the inflation targeting framework towards this end, in the context of an economy where economic agents have an...

This paper analyzes the positive and normative implications of the degree of openness of a small economy for the transmission mechanism of monetary shocks. First, we show empirical evidence on the direct relationship between openness and the degree of exchange rate pass-through. Then, we develop...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the main features of the Chilean corporate governance regime during the ‘90s and to evaluate how well it runs. According to the existing literature, Chile’s system can best be described as an “insider” one. Large groups organized in a pyramidal...

Empirical evidence against both risk-sharing across countries and the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) condition has been extensively documented. This paper investigates the empirical implications of imperfectly integrated financial markets resulting from these two issues. Under this asset...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the different components of the interest rate differential between Chile and abroad. In order to do so, a methodology for decomposing this differential is applied under two possible interest rate parity conditions: covered interest parity for US$/UF...

This paper was written as a technical note to explain the seasonal adjustment procedure used by the Central Bank of Chile. The methodology used here, named X-12-ARIMA, was developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. This paper also includes a procedure manual for the seasonal adjustment of economic...

This work analyzes, from an empirical standpoint, the information contained in the M1A aggregate in Chile and compares it with other aggregates. The findings reveal that, at least for now, the M1A aggregate does not seem to have particularly valuable information that would make it a better...

This paper documents the empirical regularities characterizing business cycles in Chile in a wide range of economic activities. While the country presents many of the typical features of business fluctuations in OECD countries, Chilean cycles present some striking peculiarities. Trade represents...