In this paper we analyze the Chilean Stock Market's efficiency level. The efficiency concept, relates financial asset prices, the outcome from investment decisions, with all the information available to economic agents in their rational economic decision making process. To corroborate the stock...

In this article we examined and tested the effects of monetary policy driven by Central Bank of Chile over the Chilean stock market’s real returns for monthly data which spans between I.1996 and XII.2006. Based on a theoretical background, we analyzed the monetary policy from the monetarist...

In this paper we characterize the unemployment rate for the main cities of the Bío Bío Region using the state-space multivariate approach, in order to isolate and evaluate their tendency and seasonal components. We present theoretical expressions for each structural model for monthly...

In this paper we assess the ability of a cash-in-advance model to replicate the behavior of the macroeconomic variables of the Chilean economy for quarterly data spanning between Q1:1986 and Q1:2000. The monetary models that we studied are able to replicate the phase shift and correlation with...

The apathy for electoral and political participation in Latin America shows an increasing trend that deserves the scholar community's attention. In this sense, this paper models the voter registration decision in a mandatory voting system that includes the margin of victory as a potential...