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Policy Responses to External Shocks: The Experiences of Australia, Brazil and Chile

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  • Luis Felipe Céspedes
  • Ilan Goldfajn
  • Phil Lowe
  • Rodrigo Valdés

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Open economies, particularly emerging markets and commodity-intensive economies, deal with large external shocks. Interestingly enough, policy reactions and policy set-ups may dampen or amplify the consequences of these shocks, affecting the magnitude of the shock. This paper revisits the recent experience of policy frameworks and reactions in three countries: Australia, Brazil and Chile. In particular, we analyse and evaluate alternative policy set-ups and policy reactions to the Asian crisis in the period 1997-98, and to the lower world growth and higher risk aversion in 2001-2002.

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  • Luis Felipe Céspedes & Ilan Goldfajn & Phil Lowe & Rodrigo Valdés, 2005. "Policy Responses to External Shocks: The Experiences of Australia, Brazil and Chile," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 321, Central Bank of Chile.
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    1. Eduardo Wiesner, 2008. "The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy Reform in Latin America," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 12913, December.

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