Usando los datos anuales para Colombia durante los 30 años pasados, probamos las teorías de oposición que explican fluctuaciones macroeconómicas: la síntesis neoclásica, que postula eso en presencia de rigidez temporal del precio una extensión monetaria inesperada produce los aumentos de...

La estabilidad relativa de los últimos años quizá lleve a algunos a pensar que la inflación alta y crónica y la hiperinflación han sido erradicadas para siempre. La historia no justifica esta conclusión. Con el propósito de no olvidar esta lección, este artículo examina brevemente...

This paper examines the depth and duration of the slump that invariably follows severe financial crises, which tend to be protracted affairs. We find that asset market collapses are deep and prolonged. On a peak-to-trough basis, real housing price declines average 35 percent stretched out over...

This paper presents some short-term and long term stylized facts of the Ecuadorian economy, and gives a brief explanation of the circumstances under which these empirical regularities developed. To do so, we analyze macroeconomic aggregates from the real and fiscal sectors, and examine price...

This work studies the significance of the social costs generated by the dynamic inconsistency of the decisions taken by the politicians in Puerto Rico. The dynamic inconsistency problem arises when the government makes sequential decisions that compromise its future actions. The same one affects...

This book focuses on the historical analysis of the main economic and social transformations of Valle del Cauca in the last 25 years. With a wide and diverse statistical information, the results of the Valley are evaluated against those registered by the main departments of the country. An...

This paper main purpose is to analyze whether Latin America economies as a whole and on an individual basis have achieved price stability, or are moving towards this objective. After a revision of the literature on the quantitative definition of price stability, I adopt the one that has...

This paper analyzes the adjustment strategies used by some Mexican firms to face supply and demand shocks. The information is provided by a survey carried out in 2012 by Banco de M'exico among 1,138 firms from different sectors. The results show that the response of firms to both types of shocks...

In this research we develop generalized diffusion indexes for the Mexican state and sectorial economic activity. These indexes summarize the dynamics of the local cycles in a way that they are consistent with the aggregate economic activity. The proposed index includes three dimensions of the...