Resumen: Este documento busca formular, para la economía colombiana, una regla de política fiscal óptima que interactúe con la política monetaria para mantener estable la brecha de inflación y de producto. Se propone un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico estocástico (DSGE) con...

En este documento se investiga acerca de la existencia y la identificación de un ciclo económico común entre Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela. Se busca una evidencia de la sincronización de los ciclos económicos de estos países, a través de diferentes medidas no paramétricas, en conformidad...

Abstract After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange...

This paper presents a novel monthly dataset of job vacancies in Bogota between 1960 and 2010. The dataset was constructed by counting the number of help-wanted announcements published in the most important newspaper with national circulation-namely, El Tiempo. We describe the methodology used to...

Este trabajo busca determinar si la política monetaria puede proporcionar una explicación parcial a las diferencias que existen en el comportamiento de los ciclos económicos entre las regiones de Colombia, así como también establecer la importancia que tienen en la explicación de estas...

In this paper we propose a new methodology to improve the estimation of structural budget balances in Slovakia. Major innovations compared to currently used methods are in using more robust output gap estimates, inclusion of pensions in the analysis, imposing consistency between various gap...

We propose a numerical method, based on indirect inference, for checking the identification of a DSGE model. Monte Carlo samples are generated from the model's true structural parameters and a VAR approximation to the reduced form estimated for each sample. We then search for a different set of...

This study aims to analyze the evolution and characteristics of overeducation in Brazil between 2012 and 2023 using data from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNADC). Overeducated workers are those who perform jobs that require less than their level of education,...

In this paper, we discuss how environmental damage and emission reduction policies affect the conduct of monetary policy in a two-sector (clean and dirty) dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. In particular, we examine the optimal response of the interest rate to changes in sectoral...

This study aims to analyze the evolution and characteristics of overeducation in Brazil between 2012 and 2023 using data from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNADC). Overeducated workers are those who perform jobs that require less than their level of education,...