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Original Articles

Prediction of the economic activity from the short and long-term interest rate differential: new evidences in Chile and the United States of America cases

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Pages 707-712 | Published online: 04 Jul 2008
 

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to verify the stability of the relationship between real activity and interest rate spread. The test is based on Chen (1988) and Osorio and Galea (Citation2006). The analysis is applied to Chile and the United States, from 1980 to 1999. In general, in both cases the relationship was statistically significant in early 80s, but a break point is found in both countries during that decades, suggesting that the relationship depends on the monetary rule follow by the Central Bank.

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the partial financial support from Projects Fondecyt 1050843 and DI Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.

Notes

1 Evidence for other countries can be found in McMillan (Citation2002), Estrella and Mishkin (Citation1998).

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