The interbank market helps regulate liquidity in the banking sector. Banks with outstanding resources usually lend to banks that are in needs of liquidity. Regulating the interbank market may actually benefit the policy stance of monetary policy. Introducing an interbank market in a general...

Central banks have long been interested in obtaining precise estimations of money demand given the fact that the evolution of money demand plays a key role over several monetary variables. I use Pedroni's (2002) Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) to estimate the coefficients of the...

En este trabajo se elabora un Indicador de Estabilidad Bancaria (IEB) para el sistema bancario peruano, con el objetivo de contribuir a la construcción de una medida operativa de “estabilidad financiera”. De esta manera, las autoridades pueden contar con un instrumento adicional para el...

The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) has been targeting inflation for more than a decade, using Lima’s inflation as the operational measure. An alternative indicator is countrywide inflation, whose quality and real-time availability have improved substantially lately. Hence, given these two...

En este documento estimamos la elasticidad de oferta laboral de Frisch en un mercado laboral con significativa movilidad laboral. Lo hacemos usando el estimador de efectos fijos de MaCurdy(1981) con corrección por sesgo de selección a-la-Heckman. La pendiente de oferta laboral queda...

Una de las consecuencias de las políticas monetarias expansivas aplicadas en los países desarrollados es el crecimiento de los mercados financieros en países emergentes como el Perú. No solo se observa una evolución de los mercados domésticos, sino que su integración a los mercados...

In everyday macroeconomic analysis, businessmen and policymakers monitor many variables in order to assess the current situation of a country’s business cycle. However, making this assessment is extremely difficult, especially on the verge of recessions: does a drop in one or more of these...

We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...

In contrast to the past, many emerging countries faced the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 with more solid financial positions and the required credibility and capacity to conduct countercyclical policies. This allowed them to better cope with the global downturn and thus behave more...

Este trabajo tiene por objetivo identificar el tipo de relación que existe entre un conjunto de variables del sistema bancario y un grupo de variables macroeconómicas; así como describir las características estadísticas de los principales indicadores financieros a nivel de bancos y la...