In the 1990’s descentralization in Colombia, a process which had begun a decade earlier, was sharply accelerated. The percentage of current Central Government revenues that are automatically transferred to the regional governments quickly jumped from about 20% to over 40%. Many analysts...

In the last decade the issue of the optimal degree of central bank independence has been at the center of attention of academics and policymakers in many countries. The direction of institutional reform has almost universally been toward making central banks more independent from political...

El Banco de la República (Banco Central de Colombia)obtuvo independencia formal del gobierno, primero, a través de la Nueva Constitución expedida a mediados de 1991 y luego, mediante la Ley del Banco de diceimbre de 1992. El próposito de este documento es describir el papel del Banco Central...

In the 1990’s descentralization in Colombia, a process which had begun a decade earlier, was sharply accelerated. The percentage of current Central Government revenues that are automatically transferred to the regional governments quickly jumped from about 20% to over 40%. Many analysts...

Abstract: In the last decade the issue of the optimal degree of central bank independence has been at the center of attention of academics and policymakers in many countries. The direction of institutional reform has almost universally been toward making central banks more independent from...

After 25 years, the Colombian authorities decided to abandon the crawling peg exchange rate policy and implement a regime of nominal exchange rate bands. Initial conditions in Colombia contrast sharply with those of other cases in which bands were part of an ongoing effort to reduce high...

The allocation of responsibilities between central and local governments and their fiscal relationship is one of the most important and complex issues of public finance. The general tendency around the world in the last decade has been toward more decentralization, that is delegation of more...

The allocation of responsibilities between central and local governments and their fiscal relationship is one of the most important and complex issues of public finance. The general tendency around the world in the last decade has been toward more decentralization, that is delegation of more...

En este trabajo se estudia la estabilidad de la función de demanda por dinero distinguiendo entre dos acepciones del concepto. Una ligada a la persistencia de los efectos de un choque exógeno (tipo I) y otra relacionada con su magnitud (tipo II).La relevancia de esta distinción fue estudiada...