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...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en generalizar el modelo tradicional de financiamiento del déficit del gobierno a través de la creación de dinero por parte del Banco Central, incluyendo los posibles efectos que tendrían sobre la tasa de inflación óptima la sustitución de monedas y la...

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...

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,...

We develop a stylized balance sheet framework to help identify 'quasi-fiscal' components of central bank crisis interventions and show how sources of fiscal risk are created from both the new claims and how they are funded. Combining central bank balance sheet data with survey evidence from...

Uganda has committed to an ambitious climate change mitigation and adaption agenda. To achieve this, the country has developed a sound framework to enhance climate change sensitivity across public financial and public investment management. The framework clearly allocates responsibilities,...

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.