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On July 1999 Colombia entered into an extended facility agreement with the IMF. Clearly, problems currently affecting Colombia go well beyond economics, as political and social tensions have intensified. Many of the policies contemplated in the IMF progra
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This paper looks into the political economy forces that helped shape exchange rate policy in Colombia since the early 1960s. As witnessed by the remarkable longevity of the managed crawl, Colombian exchange rate policies since 1967 did not take the form of major regime changes. Policy shifts...
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This paper examines the decentralization process in Colombia, particularly as it relates to reforms embodied in the 1991 Constitution, and the bailouts of territorial entities that have occurred in subsequent years as a result of perverse incentive structures. The paper provides a summary of the...
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El presente trabajo busca cuantificar el impacto de la reforma tributaria propuesta recientemente por el Gobierno colombiano, sobre la tasa efectiva de tributación por tamaño de empresa, con el uso de simulaciones. De igual forma se hace un cálculo sobre el costo de uso del capital para...
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“Recientemente el narcotráfico se ha convertido en elemento central tanto del acontecer político como de las relaciones internacionales de Colombia. La conjugación de estos dos hechos suele interpretarse como evidencia de que dicho flagelo juega un papel preponderante en la actividad...
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“Colombia ha observado un preocupante deterioro de la mayor parte de sus indicadores fiscales, situación confrontada principalmente mediante la introducción de diversas reformas tributarias. La preocupación por el estado de las finanzas públicas ha llevado a concentrar el análisis en las...
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Estimation of conventional Taylor rules for Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru shows that central banks increase their repo rate in response to increases in the output gap and, except in Peru, to deviations of inflation expectations from target. Using a Markov-Switching methodology, it is found...
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Este trabajo analiza qué tan equitativos son los impuestos más importantes en términos de recaudo para el Gobierno Nacional, el Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) y el impuesto sobre la renta. En el caso del IVA, se estudian los efectos de la estructura tributaria sobre la distribución del...
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This book analyzes the political economy of exchange rate policy in Latin America. It brings together the work of economists and political scientists interested in the interaction of economic and political factors in the development of exchange rate policy.
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