While in the early nineties Colombia grew at rates exceeding 4% and was catalogued as one of the top emerging markets, in 1999 its economy fell 4%, its exchange rate regime (a target zone) collapsed and by June of 2000 its unemployment level peaked at 20.4%. This turn of events is associated to...

We identified and estimated a SVAR model in the real and nominal exchange rates through the Blanchard and Quah decomposition. This enables us to provides results regarding the magnitude and lenght of nominal and real shock effects in the real and nominal exchange rate. We estimate that the...

La economía colombiana ha venido experimentando un fuerte proceso de apreciación real en lo que va corrido de los noventas. En efecto, tomando un índice del tipo de cambio real definido como la relación entre el precio de los bienes transables y el precio de los bienes no transables se...

This thesis is made up of four self-contained essays, two referred to short-run stabilization issues, one referred to long-run policy and one of a more atemporal nature.