In recent years the term “fear of floating” has been used to describe exchange rate regimes that, while officially flexible, in practice intervene heavily to avoid sudden or large depreciations. However, the data reveals that in most cases (and increasingly so in the 2000s) intervention has...

By how much do employed households reduce their consumption when the aggregate unemployment rate rises? In Spain during the Great Recession a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate was related to a strong drop in household consumption of more than 0.7% per equivalent adult. This...

En este trabajo se estudia cómo los estimadores que se utilizan para imputar consumo en datos provenientes de encuestas son inconsistentes a causa de error de medida en la variable de consumo. Estudios anteriores sugieren instrumentar consumo para superar este problema. El presente estudio...

Entre las décadas de 1940 y 1970, en España se emplearon varias políticas económicas que limitaban el comercio internacional. La combinación de aranceles, restricciones cuantitativas, barreras administrativas y regímenes cambiarios utilizados sufrió frecuentes cambios durante ese...

We use the shifts in Engel curves estimated from household surveys to estimate CPI biases in Argentina between 1985 and 2005. We find that real earning levels increased during this period between 4.3 and 5.7% faster per year than previously estimated. More surprisingly, relative to conventional...

We use the shifts in Engel curves estimated from household surveys to estimate CPI biases in Argentina between 1985 and 2005. We find that real earning levels increased during this period between 4.3 and 5.7% faster per year than previously estimated. More surprisingly, relative to conventional...