This paper presents a brief overview of the current state of financial development in Chile, comparing it with other countries. After providing a short summary of the most important financial reforms of past decades, we highlight the main strengths and weaknesses of Chile’s financial markets....

This paper studies empirically the relation between household economic saving (including durable good purchases) and the business cycle using Chilean data. The data show that the relation between household saving and the business cycle is given by the durable consumption dynamics.Consequently, a...

This paper seeks to evaluate the benefit that the regime of inflation targeting brought in the nineties. The paper concentrates in measuring, through matching estimators, to what extent can the process of inflationary deceleration of the period be attributed exclusively to this scheme. Results...

This paper presents stylized facts of international business cycle relevant for the Chilean economy. First, we analyze key empirical regularities in the business cycles of industrialized economies (US, Europe, and Japan). Second, we describe the interaction between these countries and their...

In this work, we extend de jure measures of capital account restrictions previously assembled by Miniane (2004) to a set of 181 economies for the period 1996-2005. Additionally, we propose two new measures of capital account restrictions. The first excludes prudential regulation and the second...