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To evaluate whether transparency is beneficial, it is usual to assume that the central bank may choose one of two options, opacity versus truthful communication. However, the monetary policymaker may have incentives to misrepresent private information so as to reduce economic volatility by...
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This paper propose indicator variables for the implementation of monetary policy in an inflation targeting regime …
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in Colombia. The analysis is based on structural VAR models, we identify monetary policy shocks following [Kim, 1999 …In this paper we study the effect of monetary policy shocks on commodity prices. While most of the literature has found … that expansionary shocks have a positive effect on aggregate price indices, we study the effect on individual prices of a …
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" shocks and core inflation indicators sent diverging signals about the transmission of those shocks to macroeconomic inflation … careful examination of the persistence of the shocks and a close monitoring of their impact on inflation expectations. It is … addition, inflation expectations partially move with "supply" shocks, an outcome that reflects a degree of credibility of …
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This work analyzes the relationship between real interest rates and commodity prices. According to Frankel’s hypothesis (1986-2006): "low real interest rates lead to high real commodity prices". However, some empirical evidence suggests that commodity prices can predict monetary policy. In...
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to in°ation shocks, specially credit rates. Finally, the evidence presented shows the importance of banks …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze how international cycles affect the real GDP cycle and so monetary policy decisions in Colombia. We estimate that cycles in world GDP, export prices and capital inflows are strongly associated with the Colombian business cycle both on impact and even...
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In this document we lay out the microeconomic foundations of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model designed to forecast and to advice monetary policy authorities in Colombia. The model is called Policy Analysis Tool Applied to Colombian Needs (PATACON). In companion documents we present...
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This paper analyses the role of a costly financial system in the transmission of monetary policy. The new-keynesian model for a small open economy is extended with a simple financial system based in Hamann and Oviedo (2006). The presence of the financial intermediation naturally allows the...
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at their long term level, while adjusting the policy interest rate to face macroeconomic shocks. Reserve requirements are … movements of reserve requirements depend on the parameters of the economy and the shocks that affect it. …
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