The aim of this paper is to review the experience of various dual-currency economies and analyze the main challenges faced by policymakers in formulating and conducting monetary policy. To that end, it distinguishes between countries with growing dollarization and those which have managed to...

This paper documents stylized facts of international medium-term business cycles by exploring the pattern of comovement between a catching-up economy, Spain, and each of the obvious candidate countries to technological leadership of the 1950-2007 period, the U.S., France, Germany, Italy and the...

In this article, we calculate the number of Mexican immigrants with doctorates living in the United States. We describe some of their characteristics and point to some factors that contribute to the emigration of this group of persons. We also quantify the transfer that Mexico has made to the...

En este articulo se presenta una cuantificacion del numero de mexicanos con estudios de doctorado que radican en los Estados Unidos, se describe algunas de sus caracteristicas y se señalan algunos factores que contribuyen a la emigracion de este grupo de personas. Tambien se ofrece una...

El presente trabajo describe la evolucion del esquema de multifondos en Chile, asi como sus principales caracteristicas y resultados. Se realizan ejercicios de simulacion con el objeto de modelar la dinamica de retornos y volatilidades de los distintos tipos de fondos de pensiones chilenos para...

Banking union is the most ambitious European project undertaken since the introduction of the single currency. It was launched in the summer of 2012, in order to send the markets a strong signal of unity against a looming financial fragmentation problem that was putting the euro on the ropes....

La crisis de deuda en la Union Economica y Monetaria ha planteado la necesidad en muchos de sus paises miembros de abordar una consolidacion fiscal sin precedentes, no solo a corto sino tambien a largo plazo. Por esta razon se ha reavivado la urgente necesidad de acelerar en muchos casos las...

The debt crisis in the Economic and Monetary Union has revealed the need in many member countries to engage in an unprecedented fiscal consolidation process, not only in the short term, but also in the long term. Therefore, the urgent need to accelerate in many cases the reforms of their pension...

Los bajos niveles de cotizacion a los sistemas de pensiones en America Latina son un enorme obstaculo que limita la puesta en practica de un sistema de seguridad social generalizado. Las tasas de cotizacion medidas como el indice de cotizantes respecto a la poblacion activa total se mantiene en...

This paper describes the construction of series of educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries covering the period 1960-2010. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Domenech (2002).