Este documento reporta los resultados de la estimaci´on de una versi´on reciente del modelo P-estrella de Gerlach y Svensson (2003) para Colombia (1980:I - 2005:IV) y sus predicciones. El modelo está diseñado para explicar la brecha de inflaci´on (tasa observada menos la meta) con base en...

Structural VAR and Structural VEC models were estimated for Chile and Colombia, aiming at identifying fiscal policy shocks in both countries between 1990 and 2005. The impulse responses obtained allow the calculation of a pesofor- peso ($/$) effect on output of a shock to public spending and to...

Este documento caracteriza los efectos dinámicos de los choques en el gasto y los ingresos del gobierno sobre la actividad económica en Colombia, durante el periodo 1980:1 - 2004:1. Esto mediante un VAR estructural mixto. El SVAR se estima utilizando el procedimiento de Blanchard y Perotti...

Es común en la literatura considerar el riesgo de crédito como una de las principales fuentes de inestabilidad del sistema financiero. Con el fin de evaluar la sensibilidad del riesgo de crédito ante cambios en algunas variables macroeconómicas y sus posibles efectos sobre la rentabilidad de...

The aim of this paper is to identify a set of early warning indicators that effectively discriminate between firms that are more prone to default on their financial obligations from those that are less prone to do so. To fulfill this objective, we use the Discriminant Analysis methodology. We...

This document explores the predictive power of the yield curves in Latin America (Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Chile) taking into account the factors set by the specifications of Nelson & Siegel and Svensson. Several forecasting methodologies are contrasted: an autoregressive model, a vector...

Evidence of smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) representations is found in two, out of three, time series of different measures of annual inflation in Colombia during this decade for monthly data. The STAR-type nonlinearities are asymmetric for inflation computed as the variation of CPI...

Colombian monthly data covering the period from 1995:01 to 2002:11 and ECM, fixed and time-varying parameters and Kalman filter techniques are used in this paper to quantify the exchange rate pass-through effects on import prices within a sample of manufactured imports. Also, whether the foreign...