La economía colombiana ha venido experimentando un fuerte proceso de apreciación real en lo que va corrido de los noventas. En efecto, tomando un índice del tipo de cambio real definido como la relación entre el precio de los bienes transables y el precio de los bienes no transables se...

While in the early nineties Colombia grew at rates exceeding 4% and was catalogued as one of the top emerging markets, in 1999 its economy fell 4%, its exchange rate regime (a target zone) collapsed and by June of 2000 its unemployment level peaked at 20.4%. This turn of events is associated to...

We identified and estimated a SVAR model in the real and nominal exchange rates through the Blanchard and Quah decomposition. This enables us to provides results regarding the magnitude and lenght of nominal and real shock effects in the real and nominal exchange rate. We estimate that the...

Desde el punto de vista de las finanzas públicas, el dinero está sujeto a impuestos. Sin embargo, mientras el gravamen a otros bienes se recolecta a través de una entidad específica, la recolección del impuesto al dinero se realiza cuando se emiten saldos monetarios y/o aumenta el nivel de...

While in the early nineties Colombia grew at rates exceeding 4% and was catalogued as one of the top emerging markets, in 1999 its economy fell 4%, its exchange rate regime (a target zone) collapsed and by June of 2000 its unemployment level peaked at 20.4%. This turn of events is clearly...

I build a general equilibrium, Þnancial accelerator model that incorporates an explicit technology for the intermediary sector. A credit multiplier emerges be- cause of a borrowing constraint that is a function of asset prices, internal funds and lending rates. With this Þnancial friction I...

En el gráfico 1 se muestra el llamado índice de la Tasa de Cambio Real (ICTR) construido por el Banco de la República; se presenta el índice, con una periodicidad mensual, para el período comprendido entre Enero de 1989 y Septiembre d e 1996. Se observa un comportamiento en el cual hay una...

We identified and estimated a SVAR model in the real and nominal exchange rates through the Blanchard and Quah decomposition. This enables us to provide results regarding the magnitude and length of nominal and real shock effects in the real and nominal exchange rate. We estimate that the...