El objetivo de este trabajo es el desarrollo de modelos de factores dinámicos para generar estimaciones de crecimiento del PIB a corto plazo (nowcast) a escala regional. El uso de esta metodología permite incorporar, de una manera parsimoniosa, la información relevante disponible en el...

Artículo de revista ; The monitoring of the regional economic situation takes on particular importance in highly decentralised countries, such as Spain. Against this background, this article summarises the key aspects of the BayFaR model (Bayesian Factor model for Regions), a new tool used by...

Economics

There is a general recognition that there are deficiencies in the Mundell-Fleming model. Nonetheless, Rose [2000] has stated that Mundell was the first to exposit the Policy Trilemma, which identifies an intrinsic incompatibility among: high capital mobility, fixed exchange rates, and monetary...

This dissertation attempts in three essays to contribute to the growing body of research on the problems associated with sudden stops of capital inflows, known to have been at the heart of many recent emerging market crises. It does this by developing basic models that can incorporate sudden...