Working Papers Central Bank of Chile - 2002

Working papers number 134 - 195

Number title Authors date
195 Trade Intensity and Business Cycle Synchronization: Are Developing Countries Any Different? César Calderón
Alberto Chong
Ernesto Stein
December 2002
194 Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination in EMU Jürgen von Hagen
Susanne Mundschenk
December 2002
193 Reflections on the Optimal Currency Area (oca) Criteria in the Light of EMU M.J. Artis December 2002
192 Growth, Integration, and Macroeconomic Policy Design: Some Lessons for Latin America David Begg December 2002
191 Curva de Beveridge, Vacantes y Desempleo: Chile 1986-2002.II Dolly Belani
Pablo García
Ernesto Pastén.
November 2002
190 How Well Does a Monetary Dynamic Equilibrium Model Account for Chilean Data? Roberto Duncan November 2002
189 EMU and Accession Countries: Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Membership Dmitri Boreiko October 2002
188 Monetary Integration in the Southern Cone: Mercosur is Not Like the EU? Ansgar Belke
Daniel Gros
October 2002
187 Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America César Calderón
William Easterly
Luis Servén. 
October 2002
186 The Output Cost of Latin America's Infrastructure Gap César Calderón
Luis Servén.
October 2002
185 How Did Latin America's Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? César Calderón
William Easterly
Luis Servén.
October 2002
184 The Direction of Causality Between Financial Development and Economic Growth César Calderón
Lin Liu
October 2002
183 A Review of the Literature on Early Warning Systems for Banking Crises Alejandro Gaytán
Christian A. Johnson
October 2002
182 Are Devaluations Really Contractionary? I. Igal Magendzo September 2002
181 Política Monetaria y Mecanismos de Transmisión: Nuevos Elementos para una Vieja Discusión. Verónica Mies
Felipe Morandé
Matías Tapia
September 2002
180 Turnover and Regulation: The Chilean Pension Fund Industry. Solange Berstein
Alejandro Micco
September 2002
179 Empalme PIB: Series Anuales y Trimestrales 1986 - 1995, Base 1996. Documento Metodológico Víctor Correa
Antonio Escandón 
René Luengo 
José Venegas
September 2002
178 An Evaluation of Monetary Regime Options for Latin America Andrew Berg
Eduardo Borensztein
Paolo Mauro
August 2002
177 Desestacionalización de Series Económicas: el Procedimiento Usado por el Banco Central de Chile Héctor Felipe Bravo
Leonardo Luna
Víctor Correa
Francisco Ruiz
August 2002
176 Is There Enough Evidence Against Absolute Convergence?.  Rómulo A. Chumacero August 2002
 175 Dollarization and Economic Performance:  What Do we Really Know? Sebastian Edwards
I. Igal Magendzo
August 2002
174 Productivity and Economic Growth: the Case of Chile Harald Beyer B.
Rodrigo Vergara M.
August 2002
173 Greenfield Fdi vs. Mergers and Acquisitions: Does the Distinction Matter? César Calderón
Norman Loayza
Luis Servén
August 2002
172 15 Years of New Growth Economics: What Have We Learnt? Xavier Sala-i-Martin. August 2002
171 Inflation Targeting in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: Performance, Credibility, and the Exchange Rate Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Alejandro Werner. 
August 2002
170 Evaluation of  the P900 Program: A Targeted Education Program for Underperforming Schools.  Andrea Tokman July 2002
169 Industrial Policies and Growth: Lessons from International Experience Marcus Noland
Howard Pack
July 2002
168 Quantity and Quality of Economic Growth Robert J. Barro July 2002
167 Monetary Union: European Lessons, Latin American Prospects Eduard Hochreiter
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Georg Winckler
July 2002
166 Monetary Policy Implementation and Results in Twenty Inflation-Targeting Countries Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Matías Tapia
June 2002
165 Estimating Gaps and Trends for the Chilean Economy Gabriela Contreras M.
Pablo García S
June 2002
164 It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models William Easterly
Ross Levine
June 2002
163 Macroeconomic Management in Emerging Economies and the International Financial Architecture José De Gregorio  June 2002
162 Two-Part Tariff Competition With Switching Costs and Sales Agents Solange Berstein  June 2002
161 Saving and Life Insurance Holdings at Boston University - A Unique Case Study B. Douglas Bernheim
Solange Berstein
Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
June 2002
160 The Federal Design of a Central Bank in a Monetary Union: The Case of the European System of Central Banks Sylvester C.W. Eijffinger June 2002
159 Testing Real Business Cycles Models in an Emerging Economy Raphael Bergoeing
Raimundo Soto
June 2002
158 Funciones Agregadas de Inversión para la Economía Chilena Héctor Felipe Bravo
Jorge Enrique Restrepo 
June 2002
157 Finance and Growth: New Evidence and Policy Analyses for Chile Ross Levine
María Carkovic
May 2002
156 The Effects of Business Cycles on Growth  Antonio Fatás May 2002
155 Trends, Cycles and Convergence Andrew Harvey May 2002
154 Coping with Chile's External Vulnerability: A Financial Problem. Ricardo J. Caballero April 2002
153 Real Exchange Rates in the Long and Short Run: A Panel Co-Integration Approach. César A. Calderón April 2002
152 Exchange Rate Policy in Chile: From the Band to Floating and Beyond Felipe G. Morandé
Matías Tapia
April 2002
151 Chile's Trade Policy: an Assessment Maurice Schiff April 2002
150 Competencia y Resultados Educativos: Teoría y Evidencia para Chile Francisco A. Gallego April 2002
149 Una Revisión de la Transmisión Monetaria y el Pass-Through en Chile Héctor Felipe Bravo
Carlos José García T
April 2002
148 Innovation and Growth in Resource Rich Countries W.F. Maloney
February 2002
147 Is Private Education Better? Evidence from Chile Andrea Tokman Ramos February 2002
146 The Golden Period for Growth in Chile- Explanations and Forecasts Francisco Gallego
Norman Loayza
February 2002
145 Financial Development, Financial Fragility, and Growth Norman Loayza
Romain Ranciere
February 2002
144 Concentration of Population in Capital Cities- Determinants and Economic Effects Rodrigo Cifuentes S. February 2002
143 Outgrowing Resource Dependence- Theory and Evidence Will Martin February 2002
142 Natural Resources And Economic Growth- The Role Of Investment Thorvaldur Gylfason
Gylfi Zoega
February 2002
141 Open Questions about the Link Between Natural Resources and Economic Growth- Sachs and Warner Revisited Daniel Lederman
William Maloney
February 2002
140 Prebisch-Singer Redux John T. Cuddington
Rodney Ludema
Shamila A Jayasuriya
February 2002
139 The Relative Richness of the Poor? Natural Resources, Human Capital and Economic Growth. Claudio Bravo-Ortega 
José De Gregorio
February 2002
138 Depreciación del Capital Natural, Ingreso y Crecimiento Sostenible- Lecciones de la Experiencia Chilena Eugenio Figueroa B. 
Enrique Calfucura T.
February 2002
137 The Distribution of Stochastic Shrinkage Parameters in Ridge Regression  Hernán Rubio
Luis Firinguetti
January 2002
136 Value at Risk: Teoría y Aplicaciones Christian A. Johnson January 2002
135 Agency Problems in the Solutions of Banking Crises Gonzalo I. Sanhueza January 2002
134 On the determinants of the Chilean Economic Growth Rómulo A. Chumacero
J.Rodrigo Fuentes
January 2002