Banco de la República's FX intervention policy is described, with a focus on its objectives and main features. Then, based on a survey of the effectiveness of sterilized intervention in Colombia, it is argued that this tool is not useful to cope with the challenges posed by medium term external...

In this document we lay out the microeconomic foundations of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, called Policy Analysis Tool Applied to Colombian Needs (PATACON), designed as a forecast tool and as a guide to advise monetarypolicy authorities in Colombia. In companion documents we...

Theory-consistent models have to be kept small to be tractable. If they are to forecast well, they have to condition on data that are unmodelled, noisy, patchy and about the future. Agents can also use these data to form their own expectations. In this paper we illustrate a scheme for jointly...

In this document we lay out the microeconomic foundations of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model designed to forecast and to advice monetary policy authorities in Colombia. The model is called Policy Analysis Tool Applied to Colombian Needs (PATACON). In companion documents we present...

En este artículo se propone un método numérico para la calibración de un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico y estocástico (DSGE). Esencialmente, éste consiste en utilizar un algoritmo híbrido de optimización, primero para encontrar un estado estacionario del modelo, y luego para...

En este documento se estima un modelo economé¬trico que descompone la serie de inflación trimestral anualizada entre un componente transitorio y otro permanente; este último inducido probablemente por las variaciones en la meta del Banco Central. Se concluye que la persistencia inflacionaria...