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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...
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After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the...
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We analyse three models to determine the conditions under which reserve requirements are used as a part of an optimal monetary policy framework in an inflation targeting regime. In all cases the Central Bank (CB) minimizes an objective function that depends on deviations of inflation from its...
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This manuscript can be divided into two main parts. The first one, using a simple example by Minford (2004) and Hatcher (2011), gives the reader a basic introduction to understand the comparison between two monetary-policy regimes: Inflation Targeting (IT) and Price-Level Targeting (PLT). The...
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Many central banks, particularly in the developing world, aim for exchange rate stability as a macroeconomic goal. However, most are reluctant to relinquish monetary policy autonomy, so they end up operating through both interest rate and foreign exchange interventions. But the use of multiple...
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Con posterioridad al año 2000 la inflación colombiana ha mostrado una declinación gradual a pesar deque la economía colombiana es relativamente abierta y su tasa de cambio está sujeta a vaivenes intensosde los flujos de capital. ¿Por qué? Podrían mencionarse varias respuestas...
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En este trabajo se caracterizan las reglas de precios de los minoristas Colombianos de bienes y servicios a través de la función de Hazard. Se cuenta con 12´052.970 reportes mensuales de precios de la totalidad de los bienes y servicios considerados en el cálculo del IPC Colombiano desde...
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En este artículo se estudia la habilidad de las reglas de precios dependientes del tiempo y del estado para explicar la probabilidad de que las firmas Colombianas cambien los precios. Para este propósito, se utilizan los precios recolectados por el Banco de la República en el cálculo del...
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In this paper we explore the price setting behavior of Colombian producers and importersusing a unique database containing the monthly price reports underlying the ColombianPPI from Jun-1999 to Oct-2006. We focus on five particular questions: 1. Are pricessticky or flexible? 2. Is a price...
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Uno de los hechos estilizados más recientes alrededor del mundo es que, después de varias décadas, se está convergiendo a una inflación baja y estable. Algunos países ya llegaron a su estado estacionario en este sentido y otros aún están en proceso de desinflación. Dado que la...
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