This paper addresses the globalization - disinflation hypothesis from the perspective of a open economy neo keynesian framework. This hypothesis proposes that globalization has changed the long-run inflation process, resulting in a global disinflation. If true, it makes us wonder about the merit...

Working on a unbalanced sample of OECD countries spanning the period 1970-2003, this paper contributes to the empirical literature on the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle by making three main innovations: First, it goes beyond the traditional national-level investment-saving equations to estimate, for...

Los bancos centrales de América Latina se vieron reforzados en la década de los noventa mediante nuevas leyes de autonomía, la adopción de nuevos regímenes de política monetaria (como los objetivos de inflación) y la mayor transparencia en la toma de decisiones, limitadas por la...