This paper shows that the Colombian sovereign risk (EMBI?Colombia) is mainly determined by international investors’ risk appetite, whose response is non?linear and depends on the government fiscal stance. It is also shown that the relationship between these variables experienced an important...

El propósito de este trabajo es determinar la importancia relativa de los costos de liquidez de los bancos dentro de los costos totales asociados a un cierto nivel de reservas. Este componente del costo total está determinado por la probabilidad que enfrenta un banco, en cada instante del...

A pesar de que en Colombia se acepta la intuición de que "el nivel medio de la inflación anual no cambia durante lapsos de tiempo muy largos", la afirmación contraria de que esta "tiene una raíz unitaria" aparece con frecuencia en la literatura empírica. Una explicación a tal...

En este trabajo se caracterizan las reglas de precios de los minoristas colombianos a través de funciones de hazard. Se enfatiza la reducción del sesgo derivado de la heterogeneidad observada como no observada en dichas funciones. El efecto de la heterogeneidad observada se reduce al estimar...

The price setting behavior of Colombian retailers of goods and services was studied based on a uniquedataset containing 12,052,970 individual price reports covering all items in the Colombian CPI fromMarch 1999 to May 2008. The main results are summarized as follows: 1. Colombian consumerprices...

The authors propose a short run model for the monetary transmission mechanism in which the output gap is model as an unobserved variable. By estimating this model using maximum likelihood on a Kalman Filter, the authors find an estimate of the unobserved output gap as well as its estimation...

In this paper we explore the price setting behaviorof Colombian producers and importers using a unique database containing the monthly price reportsunderlying the Colombian PPI from Jun-1999 to Oct-2006. We focus on five particular questions: 1. Are prices sticky or flexible? 2. Is a price...

Colombia has been on a steady disinflation path since the early 1990s. In this paper, we model the transmission mechanism of monetary policy during this disinflation. We describe how inflation evolves in response to important shocks that occurred during disinflation such as the terms of trade...