Using annual data for Colombia over the last 30 years, we test opposing theories that explain macroeconomic fluctuations: the neoclassical synthesis, which posits that in the presence of temporary price rigidity an unanticipated monetary expansion produces output gains that erode over time with...

En este artículo, un algoritmo cataloga las bonanzas de entradas de capital tanto a economías emergentes como a economías avanzadas desde 1980 a 2007 para 181 países y desde 1960 a 2007 para un subconjunto de 66 economías de todas las regiones. Factores globales como los precios de los...

En los últimos diez años, las autoridades de política en distintos países emergentes han optado por limitar las fluctuaciones del valor de sus monedas respecto al dólar americano. En este documento se utiliza una relación de paridad de tasas de interés para identificar las fuentes...

The success over the years in reducing inflation and, consequently, the average level of nominal interest rates has increased the likelihood that the nominal policy interest rate may become constrained by the zero lower bound. When that happens, a central bank can no longer stimulate aggregate...

As recently as early 1994, market participants had to infer the stance of U.S. monetary policy according to the type and size of the open market operations conducted by the Federal Reserve's Trading Desk. Thus, investors were exposed to uncertainty about both the timing and the motivation for...

Capital flow and commodity cycles have long been connected with economic crises. Sparse historical data, however, has made it difficult to connect their timing. We date turning points in global capital flows and commodity prices across two centuries and provide estimates from alternative data...

In 1937, in the midst of the US recovery from the Great Depression, President Roosevelt implemented spending cuts in pursuit of a balanced budget. Subsequently, the unemployment rate jumped nearly 6 percentage points over the next year and the US economy re-entered a major recession. In the...