Fluctuations in commodity prices are an important driver of business cycles in small emerging market economies (EMEs). This paper documents how these fluctuations correlate strongly with the business cycle in EMEs. A commodity sector is then embedded into a multi-country EMEs business cycle...

Fluctuations in commodity prices are an important driver of business cycles in small emerging market economies (EMEs). We document how these fluctuations correlate strongly with the business cycle in EMEs. We then embed a commodity sector into a multi-country EMEs' business cycle model where...

Bolivia has achieved noteworthy success over the past 15 years in raising incomes, reducing poverty, and maintaining macroeconomic stability by deploying commodity revenues to finance transfers, public investment, and state-led development, using an exchange rate peg as a policy anchor. However,...

This paper describes the Banco de la República's FX intervention policy, with a focus on its objectives and main features. It then argues, based on a review of the literature on the effectiveness of sterilized intervention in Colombia, that this tool is not a useful way of coping with the...

This technical note and manual (TNM) addresses the following issues: -- Evaluating the full implications from the policies adopted to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy requires a well-developed macroeconomic framework. This note illustrates how such frameworks were used...

En este artículo se propone un método numérico para la calibración de un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico y estocástico (dsge). Esencialmente, este consiste en utilizar un algoritmo híbrido de optimización, primero para encontrar un estado estacionario del modelo y luego para...