Inflation, exchange rate management and fiscal control are problems that worry Colombian society, specially nowadays when the country is assuming new economic and political points of view. This paper retakes the discussion on the macroeconomic effects. Of the government’s corrent...

The intention of this article is to present some of the conceptual developments on the existing relationship between the credibility of the public and the economic and political measures adopted by the present government along with the success of their application. In order to achieve this...

Being faced with the hopes and discouragement of the neoclassic school of Economics which is the search for an "analytical territory in which the theorical notions of time and reason could coexist harmoniously"; the valuable contribution of Keynes appeared. It consists of joining to the economic...

En este trabajo se estudia la estabilidad de la función de demanda por dinero distinguiendo entre dos acepciones del concepto. Una ligada a la persistencia de los efectos de un choque exógeno (tipo I) y otra relacionada con su magnitud (tipo II).La relevancia de esta distinción fue estudiada...

Aquí analizamos esta pregunta: si el déficit aumenta hoy con un nivel de gasto dado, ¿qué pasa con el capital de largo plazo de la economía? Si el acervo sube, el consumo privado, bajo la hipótesis del Ingreso Permanente, subirá y el ahorro cae. Empíricamente, esto implica una...

Un eje fundamental de la teoría fiscal moderna se refiere al hecho de que las decisiones en materia de gasto público y tributación efectuadas en el presente, se relacionan con el curso futuro de la deuda pública y sus determinantes a través de la restricción intertemporal del presupuesto,...

The allocation of responsibilities between central and local governments and their fiscal relationship is one of the most important and complex issues of public finance. The general tendency around the world in the last decade has been toward more decentralization, that is delegation of more...

Un país con política cambiaria que no sea de flotación pura, demanda reservas internacionales con múltiples propósitos, el principal siendo garantizar el flujo de pagos y evitar un derrumbe del sistema cambiario vigente(1). Por ejemplo, si la tasa de cambio es fija, las reservas sirven para...

The allocation of responsibilities between central and local governments and their fiscal relationship is one of the most important and complex issues of public finance. The general tendency around the world in the last decade has been toward more decentralization, that is delegation of more...