This document provides evidence to show that Colombia is a net exporter of 5% of its population with a university or post-graduate degree, while Argentina, Brazil and Chile are net importers of people with a similar level of education. We find that those Colombians who returned home to Colombia...

This paper explores the relationship between central bank independence and inflation in Latin America, using as a case study the experience of Colombia (1923-2008). Since its creation, in 1923, Colombia´s central bank has undergone several reforms that have changed its objectives and degree of...

This paper presents two versions of a spatial competition model forthe banking sector. The first version, describes a framework that fol-lows closely Salop´s spatial competition model. This version is modi-fied in the second part by introducing the loan market and default riskprobabilities for...

La incidencia de la actividad petrolera en la balanza de pagos ha sido significativa, especialmente desde inicios de la década de los noventa cuando se descubrieron importantes pozos petrolíferos en el piedemonte llanero, que han generado sustanciales flujos de capital e ingresos por...

The study presented here looks at the Colombian corporate sector broken down by city. In particular, it studies the eight main cities of the country. It is an initial study, maybe the first of its kind, and it aims to act as a foundation for future research in the area. A database obtained from...

Evidence of smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) representations is found in two, out of three, time series of different measures of annual inflation in Colombia during this decade for monthly data. The STAR-type nonlinearities are asymmetric for inflation computed as the variation of CPI...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of Colombian integration with East Asia using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model, in which we assess the effects of several trade liberalization scenarios on trade flows and welfare. The results show that there is an important potential for the...

El BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA ha adoptado gradualmente el sistema de objetivo de inflación para guiar sus políticas monetaria y cambiaría. Entre 1992 y 1996 la política monetaria tuvo como meta final cierto nivel de inflación y como meta intermedia el agregado M1 (efectivo más cuentas...

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 clearly...

En los últimos años se ha observado un incremento de los precios de la educación privada por encima de la inflación observada. En las décadas recientes la educación básica privada ha sido muy dinámica y hoy atiende un gran número de niños y jóvenes colombianos, pero simultáneamente...