Cuadernos de Economía has been published since 1963. During these 35 years a large part of the articles have dealt with the Chilean economy. The purpose of this paper is to analyze some important aspects of the Chilean economy, as they have been viewed th

This paper studies the shift in the role of monetary policy in Latin America during the 1990s. As in most industrial economies, in Latin America there has been a refocusing of the objectives pursued by monetary policy towards the achievement of price stab

This article presents a historical analysis of the Chilean monthly growth rate from 1987 to 2000, applying the Switching Regime methodology design by Hamilton (1989). Three scenarios were considered, which imply a number of parameters estimated using the

Mexico is the only country in Latin America that has maintained a floating exchange rate regime for a relatively long period of time. Therefore the study of Mexico’s experience could provide useful lessons for other emerging economies. The paper analyses

This note presents the arguments for and against the move from a monetary policy interest rate indexed to past inflation to a rate set in pesos (nominal) that took place in August 2001. The debate within the Central Bank was long and at sometimes hot, and

This paper evaluates the relationship between a country's openness to trade and the effectiveness of monetary policy in changing output growth and inflation in 29 different countries. Using quarterly data from the 1957-2003 period, empirical estimates based on individual country specifications...

This paper examines the relationship of the term structure of interest rates to monetary policy instruments and to subsequent real activity and inflation in both Europe and the United States. The results show that monetary policy is an important determinant of the term structure spread, but is...