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The purpose of this study is twofold: First, it provides an empirical characterization of fiscal policy in Colombia over the last decades, by assessing the three most relevant macroeconomic factors: the behavior of fiscal policy over the business cycle; whether it has been coherent with the...
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Este artículo describe la evolución y los principales determinantes de los homicidios en Medellín en los últimos 30 años, destacando el papel del narcotráfico en la financiación del crimen organizado presente en Medellín y otras ciudades del país y América Latina. Se enumeran y...
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Based on individual data on the population of those arrested in Medellín, we assess whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found on non-index...
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The main purpose of this chapter is to summarize the information currently available oncocaine production and trafficking. The chapter starts by describing the available dataon cocaine production and trade, the collection methodologies, (if available) used bydifferent sources, the main biases in...
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En este artículo estudiamos la estimación de un nivel de equilibrio de la cuenta corriente de la balanza de pagos de Colombia y sus posibles implicaciones para el desalineamiento de la tasa de cambio real. Se siguen dos metodologías alternativas para la estimación. Primero, se realiza una...
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Este documento presenta las principales tendencias en las plantas de personal, salarios yfunciones de 63 bancos centrales, para el período 2000-2009. Se profundiza en el análisis dealgunas funciones que realizan los bancos centrales como la supervisión del sistema financiero,la operación de...
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This paper provides evidence on the positive role of fiscal decentralization on regional economic growth in Colombia since the promulgation of the Political Constitution of 1991. The empirical strategy involved the choice of a suitable estimator for the panel data approach, the Augmented Mean...
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This paper is concerned with interest rate setting by commercial banks and how the transmission of monetary policy is re°ected in these rates. For this purpose we study the case of the Colombian banking industry for the period 1996-2004. Using microdata, the Certi¯cate of Deposit(CD) market...
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ABSTRACT. We use a dynamic factor model proposed by Stock and Watson [1998, 1999,2002a,b] to forecast Colombian inflation. The model includes 92 monthly series observedover the period 1999:01-2008:06. The results show that for short-run horizons, factor modelforecasts significantly outperformed...
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En este documento se presentan los resultados de la estimación econométrica del modelo de gasto público y crecimiento económico de Barro (1990). La estimación fue de tipo panel utilizando datos de frecuencia anual de 83 países (con poblaciones mayores a 2 millones en 1980) a lo largo del...
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