This paper examines whether central banks in Latin America have implemented conventionalinflation targeting (IT) prescriptions, with a focus on foreign exchange intervention and officialreserves accumulation policies. To this end, the paper reviews the experiences of Brazil, Chile,Colombia, and...

A threefold analysis of commodity prices is carried out to observe their long-runbehaviour, their short-run properties and the main determinants. According to theevidence, the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis does not seem to be a property of mostprices. The cycles of commodity prices are asymmetric...

En el presente artículo se realiza una aproximación del pass-through de largo plazo de la tasade cambio nominal al índice de precios al consumidor (IPC) para Colombia durante el período1994 - 2005 siguiendo de cerca la propuesta de Campa y Goldberg (2006). En ella se tienen encuenta algunas...

A regular vine copula approach is implemented for testing for contagion among the exchange rates of the six largest Latin American countries. Using daily data from June 2005 through April 2012, we find evidence of contagion among the Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican exchange rates....

Using the johansens cointegration technique we develop an empirical model of the nominal and real exchange rates of Colombia. We find that the nominal exchange rate is determined by the nominal variables and the fundamentals and that the real exchange rate is determined by the fundamentals but...

This paper provides evidence of short-run predictability for the real exchange rate by performing out-of-sample tests of a forecasting equation which is derived from a consumption-based asset pricing model. In this model, the real exchange rate is predictable as a result of the implications of...

This study implements a regular vine copula methodology to evaluate the level of contagion among the exchange rates of six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) from June 2005 to April 2012. We measure contagion in terms of tail dependence coefficients,...

La literatura referente a los modelos de inflación y política monetaria anti-inflacionaria del tipo denominado Inflation Targeting" (IT) ha reforzado una opinión popular: que la inflación tiene poca o ninguna relación con el aumento de la cantidad de dinero. Esta opinión es contraria a una...

The Colombian economy experienced several shocks in the past ten years. The permanent fall of inflation, the adoption of inflation targeting (IT) and a financial crisis altered the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. Low inflation and IT reduced inflation persistence and contributed to...

The Colombian economy and financial system have coped reasonably well with the effects of the global financial crisis. Hence, unconventional" policy measures have not been at the center of the policy decisions and discussions. Nominal short term interest rates have remained the main monetary...