Today that Banco de México has adopted an inflation targeting scheme, it has become more relevant to know the effect that moderate inflation has on economic growth in order to design monetary policy. The purpose of this paper is to estimate that effect following a non-lineal approach similar to...

This working paper tries to analyse the Spanish literature on Public Finance published during the first Third of the 20th Century. A History of Economic Thought approach has been adopted. The lack of research on this topic compelled us to identify the different authors, works and debates. This...

This paper aims to contribute to the interpretation of the economic history of Uruguay during the first decades of the 20th century. Although there is abundant literature about this period, public finances still need in-depth study. We offer an overview of the fiscal budget of the Central...

The document evaluates the importance of the credit market on consumption in Mexico. A test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis indicates that consumers face liquidity constraints. Considering financing to the private non-banking sector by commercial banks as well as the spread between borrowing...

This article analyses the development of the Colombian monetary and banking system between 1850 and 1880. The political debate and the power struggle at the national level determined the economic model of this period. Beyond its technical feasibility, the economic decisions were influenced by...

This article uses conventional models to evaluate whether the term structure of interest rates can predict economic activity in Mexico. A positive relationship between interest rate differentials and economic activity is detected, even after controlling for the monetary policy stance through...

This article shows, from an economic history perspective, the changes in the Colombian monetary policy brought about by “La Regeneración” (conservative regime) from 1880. The new political model replaced the decentralization policies, pursued by Radicals in the previous decades, with a very...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of monetary policy actions in affecting the interest rate term structure. As a first approach, variations of the interest rate term structure in dates following a change in monetary policy stance are presented for the years 1998, 1999 and...