The Central Bank uses press releases after board meetings for at least three purposes: first, to justify policy measures based on the economic situation; second, to provide some forward guidance signals to agents; and third, to supply some further (latent) information to the markets. This...

This paper propose indicator variables for the implementation of monetary policy in an inflation targeting regime. Using constant interest rate projections, the notion of a target-compatible interest rate is presented. This variable allows to extract some characteristics that the expected future...

The objective of this paper is to analyze how international cycles affect the real GDP cycle and so monetary policy decisions in Colombia. We estimate that cycles in world GDP, export prices and capital inflows are strongly associated with the Colombian business cycle both on impact and even...