Financial regulation is normally imposed in reaction to some prior crisis, rather than founded on theoretical principle. In the past, regulation has been deployed to improve risk management practices in individual banks. This was misguided. Instead, regulation should focus first on systemic...

The Bank Credit Channel, which amplifies the effects of the traditional channel of monetary policy, emphasizes on the structure and frictions of financial markets as determinants of aggregate spending. This paper aims at analyze and verify the existence of the bank credit channel in Colombia...

This paper focuses on the implementation of the BCRA's monetary policy from the end of the convertibility regime to the present. The issuance of interest-bearing liabilities was a central element that gave the BCRA operational autonomy to implement its monetary policy within diverse...

We study whether monetary policy and real exchange rate shocks have non-linear effects on output and inflation in a partially dollarized economy such as Peru. For this purpose, we use a Smooth Transition Vector Autoregression methodology and then report impulse-response functions for shocks of...

By examining the reaction functions of the Central Banks of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (LATAM-5) over the period 2002-2019, this article explores the degree to which the adoption of inflation targeting regimes allowed these economies to have greater room of manouvre in conducting...

This paper focuses on the implementation of the BCRA's monetary policy from the end of the convertibility regime to the present. The issuance of interest-bearing liabilities was a central element that gave the BCRA operational autonomy to implement its monetary policy within diverse...

During the last decade, a new consensus has emerged among economists with respect to the way in which monetary policy should be conducted. According to this view, monetary policy should be focused in order to achieve a given inflation target. However, the

This article shows, from an economic history perspective, the changes in the Colombian monetary policy brought about by “La Regeneración” (conservative regime) from 1880. The new political model replaced the decentralization policies, pursued by Radicals in the previous decades, with a very...

The article shows that the disjunctive stated by Hernández et. al. between pay or excise national public debt is not relevant. Discussion should focus on the current price that is paid for national public debt. Treasury is offering TES on the market at an interest rate much greater than DTF....

This note presents the arguments for and against the move from a monetary policy interest rate indexed to past inflation to a rate set in pesos (nominal) that took place in August 2001. The debate within the Central Bank was long and at sometimes hot, and