This paper presents several methodologies for understanding the Chilean growth process. By using univariate time series representations, we find that the Chilean data is more consistent with exogenous than with endogenous growth models. Growth accounting exercises show that the mild growth rates...

This paper explores whether monetary policy and the denomination of its operative instrument affects banks’ intermediation spread in the Chilean economy. After dividing the sample into pre- and post nominalization periods, the evidence shows a positive correlation between the monetary policy...

This paper review different issues presented in the VI Annual Conference of the Central bank of Chile concerning the relationship between banking market structure, regulation and monetary policy. Topics like the transmission of the monetary policy, financial taxation, the role of foreign bank...

This paper uses a consumer theory-based systemic approach to model the demand for monetary liquid asset holdings. We implement the suggestions and caveats of aggregation theory for the estimation of a demand system for liquid assets (monies) in static, dynamic and time-varying parameters setups....

The traditional tests of convergence implicitly test the unit root hypothesis for per capita income series. Despite that under the null the statistics do not have standard asymptotic distributions, most papers on this topic use standard distributions to evaluate this hypothesis, with the...

The effects of monetary policy depend significantly on the capacity of the Central Bank to affect market interest rates by managing liquidity. Therefore, it comes out as an important issue to determine the degree of flexibility of lending and deposit rates to changes in policy rates. In this...

This paper addresses three main questions; how can a country specialized in primary goods become an exporter of manufacturing goods? How does factor abundance affect the possibilities of achieving comparative advantages in manufactures? Does the type of natural resource abundance make any...

In this paper we estimate the output gap and the growth rate of potential output in Chile for the 1986-2005 period, using three different methods: (i) a production function approach, (ii) a Kalman filter approach (univariate and multivariate), and (iii) a structural vector autoregression (SVAR)....

The Central Bank of Chile replaced its monetary policy instrument in August 2001, shifting from a monetary policy rate (MPR) linked to an indexed unit of account (UF, defined by the lagged CPI) to a nominal MPR denominated in pesos. This policy change was complemented with a significant change...

This paper provides new empirical evidence on macroeconomic policies and results in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), based on recent data for the region and the world at large. Our results show that: (i) both monetary and fiscal policies are counter- (pro-) cyclical when credibility is...