Este documento analiza las respuestas de política económica frente a dos episodios de reversión repentina de flujos de capital en la economía peruana, la crisis Rusa de 1998 y la crisis económica mundial actual. El análisis indica que en ambos casos, la economía peruana logró aminorar el...

Analizan las alternativas de política económica que se pueden considerar frente al influjo de capitales a las economías emergentes.

Este documento presenta un marco teórico que explica la segmentación del mercado laboral en dos sub-mercados: el formal y el informal. Sobre la base de los datos de la encuesta ENAHO 2007, se determinan los niveles de informalidad existentes de acuerdo con distintas definiciones. Asimismo, se...

Este documento utiliza una aproximación no paramétrica propuesta por Ñopo (2004) para calcular las brechas salariales entre trabajadores formales e informales en el Perú. Siguiendo esta metodología y utilizando los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (ENAHO) del año 2007, se...

This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, which is calibrated for the Peruvian economy and can be useful for the design and analysis of monetary policy. The model includes a second currency that replaces partially the domestic currency in its functions of unit of...

The most salient feature of financial dollarization, and the one that causes more concern to policy makers, is its persistence: even after successful macroeconomic stabilizations, dollarization ratios often remain high. In this paper we claim that this persistence is connected to the fact that...

This paper extends the model of Aoki et al. (2009) considering a two sector small open economy. We study the interaction of borrowing, asset prices, and spillovers between tradable and non-tradable sectors. Our results suggest that when it is difficult to enforce debtors to repay their debt...

In this paper we use quarterly data from Chile, Mexico and Peru to study the link between terms of trade and Total Factor Productivity (TFP). We estimate TFP using a stylized general equilibrium model for a small open economy model with quarterly data. Then, the TFP is decomposed into a domestic...

This paper provides an overview of the Reserve Requirements measures undertaken by the Central Bank of Peru. We provide a rationale for the use of these instruments as well as empirical evidence on their effectiveness. In general, the results show that a reserve requirement tightening has the...