El objetivo del documento es realizar un análisis descriptivo del mercado de los combustibles en el país, en particular de la gasolina y el ACPM, de la política de precios, los subsidios y los efectos inflacionarios de su desmonte parcial en 2004. De acuerdo al mercado internacional de...

El desarrollo de las actividades industriales puede tener varios efectos positivos en el crecimiento económico general. En este ensayo examinamos las consecuencias de un cambio técnico industrial en el resto de la economía a través de su efecto en los precios de los bienes industriales. Las...

El objetivo de este documento es explicar el nuevo esquema para la fijación del precio máximo de venta al público de la gasolina automotor, establecido recientemente por el gobierno, y mediante un análisis insumo producto determinar su posible impacto sobre la inflación al consumidor. La...

This paper studies the dynamic response of a few key macroeconomic variables to each one of three exogenous shocks: monetary, government spending and technological shocks. By using a cash in advance model with two market frictions, one in the intermediation of loanable funds, and one in the...

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

This paper studies the performance,in terms of volatility and welfare, of different monetary policy rules in an economy with two market frictions.We consider a financial friction that highlights the credit channel as the monetary transmission mechanism and a labor friction, that considerably...

Sudden stops seem to create the perfect environment for disinflation, especially when central banks defend the exchange rate by increasing interest rates. We propose a variation of the output gap model that incorporates the sudden stop shock. The use of the model in policy analysis shows that...

En los años veinte del siglo XIX, Colombia, entonces Gran Colombia, fue el mayor deudor internacional. En los siguientes cien años su acceso al mercado internacional de capitales fue mínimo, y su historia financiera estuvo marcada por sucesivas renegociaciones con sus antiguos acreedores....

The understanding of foreign investment flows is important for emerging market policy makers, since such flows make up a considerable part of the balance of payments, and since such flows tend to be very volatile. Sudden stops or reversals of investment flows have, indeed, played an important...

In this paper we try to elucidate the relationship between foreign and domestic banks external indebtedness and the business cycle in Colombia. After a brief review of related literature, we characterize the historical behavior of banking external indebtedness in Colombia, and perform...