While the Israeli stabilization of 1985 has received significant attention in previous work, much less is known about the process of financial opening and liberalization which began shortly afterwards. In contrast to the disinflation policy of 1985, the process of financial liberalization that...

This paper derives and tests the restrictions implied by an optimizing model of currency substitution under nonexpected utility using quarterly data for Israel from 1978 to 1988. We find that the elasticity of intertemporal substitution is less than one, the elasticity of currency substitution...

(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se analiza la experiencia reciente con los flujos de capitales internacionales en América Latina y se tratan los aspectos resaltantes de las políticas relacionadas. El trabajo parte de tres premisas básicas. Los ingresos de capitales...

This paper reviews recent experience with international capital flows in Latin America, and discusses the policy issues that surround them. The paper is predicated on three basic premises. Capital flows to the region are an important source of macroeconomic disturbance. Also, capital flows are...

(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) La dolarización financiera en América Latina ha venido aumentando con el tiempo, a pesar de una reducción considerable de la inflación y de un viraje hacia la independencia de los bancos centrales. Luego de tratar los factores estilizados claves de...

This paper discusses the changing pattern of capital flows to developing countries. The analysis is heavily colored by recent events. It concentrates on the principal facts, developments, and policies that characterize the current episode of capital inflows to Asia and Latin America.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for the analysis of policy-makers' choices regarding unilateral exchange rate bands. Exchange rate bands are viewed as the outcome of an optimization problem by a policy-maker whose objective function weighs the level of the real exchange rate...