The severe financial crisis that grips Spain has multiple causes. One has been the massive and continued expansion of the money supply since Spain’s accession to the Eurozone, and the non-negligible effects of this expansion on asset prices as well as on the structure of the economy. We...

In this paper we model and analyze the contemporaneous correlation between interest rate, monetary aggregates, production and prices (of consumer goods, financial assets and real estate) of the euro area. To do this, firstly we estimate a common cyclical factor by means of an unobserved...

The purpose of this work is to get some basic facts from the interaction between economic growth, age structure, macroeconomic environment and growth, taking into account the heterogeneity of both the demographic structure and the levels of development in the world. First we discuss the...

This paper proposes the implementation of the SupWald test of Andrews (1993) to detect structural breaks in the loadings of a static factor model. The procedure is illustrated by testing for structural breaks in the common factors of GDP growth series for a sample of advanced countries from 1950...

El estudio de los ciclos económicos ha sido de gran interés desde su análisis formal a principios del siglo XX, no obstante no se ha producido un consenso entre los expertos en cuanto a su definición y a las técnicas de estimación de los mismos. Es por ello, que en este trabajo se presenta...

En este trabajo se pretende avanzar en la evaluación estructural de los componentes de los indicadores cíclicos estimados con modelos factoriales dinámicos. A partir de una generalización del test de Andrews (1993) ofrecemos la posibilidad de detectar rupturas en los componentes y darles una...

This paper proposes the implementation of the SupWald test of Andrews (1993) to detect structural breaks in the loadings of a static factor model. The procedure is illustrated by testing for structural breaks in the common factors of GDP growth series for a sample of advanced countries from 1950...

A new type of monetary policy rule designed to achieve both price and output stability has increasingly been recommended during the last business cycle expansion, prior to the 2007 crisis. This type of rule implies "active" reaction functions. Based on the new Keynesian approach to monetary...