This paper computes the fiscal stance in a small open economy and asses its position to relevant macroeconomic variables in order to protect the macroeconomic stability and promote development. Since 2006 change in income and tax structure shifts the implementation of fiscal policy, increasing...

This paper analyses the dynamics and significance of supply sectors in planning the economic policy, in particular the impact (manufacturing, agriculture and services) on economic growth through 1970 – 2011 and three cohorts. In these sense, it uses the following tools: co-movements and multi...

Introduction of inflation targeting has global effects on dynamic of prices and economic growth. In case of a developing country with an increasing remonetization since 2007 – 2008 and modest growing later than 2009 it’s important to assess the adoption of a new regime and how it helps to...

We compute the optimal income tax using the Quarterly Employment Survey 2010 and the model proposed by Kaplow (2008). The collection of optimal income taxes excludes 92% of people and it’s applied in the three stages; results show that 17% of income tax is optimal. The “optimal tax” is...

Study and characterization of business cycles are an important issue in the analysis of empirical regularities in a developing economy. Following standard literature of business cycles, we establish episodes of business cycles in Bolivia. We apply economic and statistical filters to economic...

The recent sovereign debt and subprime crises affected the world economy and highlighted the role and importance of policy coordination against adverse scenarios (price, demand, supply and external shocks, etc.). This paper asses the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy coordination, for...

Understand the contribution to control inflation and output gap from fiscal and monetary stance are important to apply policy. This paper shows the effect of these two instruments to control deviations of these two fundamentals: inflation and output gap. The main objective is reached by...

The boom of commodity prices was affected by the last economic crisis. The importance of these prices - forecasting – for small and developing countries becomes an important factor in the structure of their balance sheets. In this context, we apply a pooling of different projections methods...

El presente trabajo estudia la dinámica de la inflación en Bolivia usando la Curva de Phillips Híbrida Nueva Keynesiana (HNKPC), incorporando características del país como: grado de dolarización debido a la influencia de este sobre las expectativas de los agentes, determinados conflictos...

El presente trabajo estudia la dinámica de la inflación en Bolivia usando la Curva de Phillips Híbrida Nueva Keynesiana (HNKPC), incorporando características del país como: grado de dolarización debido a la influencia de este sobre las expectativas de los agentes, determinados conflictos...