El presente documento analiza el comportamiento reciente de los precios de la vivienda en Colombia y busca dar luces sobre si hay un desalineamiento de estos frente a los fundamentales que los determinan. Para ello se utilizaron dos aproximaciones. La primera utiliza un modelo VAR estructural...

El presente trabajo busca cuantificar el impacto de la reforma tributaria propuesta recientemente por el Gobierno colombiano, sobre la tasa efectiva de tributación por tamaño de empresa, con el uso de simulaciones. De igual forma se hace un cálculo sobre el costo de uso del capital para...

On July 1999 Colombia entered into an extended facility agreement with the IMF. Clearly, problems currently affecting Colombia go well beyond economics, as political and social tensions have intensified. Many of the policies contemplated in the IMF progra

Between 1990 and 1992 Colombia had important current account surpluses which brought about a significant build-up of international reserves. In order to neutralize the monetary effects of intervening in the foreign exchange market, restrictive monetary an

This book analyzes the political economy of exchange rate policy in Latin America. It brings together the work of economists and political scientists interested in the interaction of economic and political factors in the development of exchange rate policy.

This study analyzes foreign investment in Colombia’s financial system, chronicling major changes in legislation, describing how investment flows evolved over time, and comparing performance of foreign–owned versus domestic banks. Panel data estimations reveal that financial liberalization in...

This paper examines the determinants of the high intermediation spread observed in the Colombian banking sector for over two decades. A reduced-form equation is estimated on the basis of a bank profit maximization model that permits a decomposition into operational costs, financial taxation,...

This study examines the recent marked slowdown in bank credit to the private sector in Latin America. Based on the study of eight countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Venezuela), the magnitude of the slowdown is documented, comparing it to historical behavior...

Estimation of conventional Taylor rules for Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru shows that central banks increase their repo rate in response to increases in the output gap and, except in Peru, to deviations of inflation expectations from target. Using a Markov-Switching methodology, it is found...