We exploit the timing of cell phone coverage in rural Peru to investigate its effects on economic development. We exploit information regarding the location, date of installation and technical characteristics of cell phone towers in order to construct coverage patterns at the village level from...

This study aims to identify the preferences of the monetary authority in the Peruvian regime of inflation targeting through the derivation of optimal monetary policy rules. To achieve that, we used a calibration strategy based on the choice of values of the parameters of preferences that...

Different theories of price stickiness have distinct implications on the number of modes in the distribution of price changes. We formally test for the number of modes in the price change distribution of 36 supermarkets, spanning 22 countries and 5 continents. We present results for three...

It has been widely documented that the exchange rate pass-through to domestic inflation has decreased significantly in most of the industralised world. As microeconomic factors cannot completely explain such a widespread phenomenon, a macroeconomic explanation linked to the inflationary...

I study a stochastic overlapping generations model with production and three-period- lived agents. Agents trade bonds and risky capital. Unlike the two-period model, I show that a stationary equilibrium in which prices and allocations depend solely on the aggregate capital stock and the current...

I introduce habit formation into an otherwise standard overlapping generations economy with pure exchange populated by three-period-lived agents. Habits are modeled in such a way that current consumption increases the marginal utility of future consumption. With logarithmic utility functions, I...

La presente investigación aproxima cuantitativamente las relaciones dinámicas potencialmente asimétricas entre el crecimiento del PBI, del acervo de inventarios y de tres componentes de la demanda agregada (la demanda interna pública, la demanda interna privada y, en particular, la demanda...

En este trabajo se identifica las no-linealidades y asimetrías del ciclo del crédito bancario para Perú en el periodo 1994 - 2010. Estas características del crédito son importantes porque los lineamientos de política monetaria, la regulación financiera y el planeamiento estratégico de...

El documento evalúa los efectos de las remesas en un grupo de indicadores de desarrollo económico en el Perú. El crecimiento sostenido del flujo de estos recursos durante las últimas dos décadas justifica nuestro estudio. Se estudia la contribución de las remesas en tres aspectos: el...

Under inflation targeting and other related monetary policy regimes, the identification of non-transitory in ation and forecasts about future inflation constitute key ingredients for monetary policy decisions. In practice, central banks perform these tasks using so-called "core inflation...