important interaction between entry and investment, as the two can be used for consumption smoothing. Entry dampens the volatility of investment and helps the model to have a better fit for the second moments of all aggregate variables. Regarding prices, the model delivers a negative correlation...

Are firm entry and fixed exporting costs relevant for understanding the international transmission of business cycles? We revisit this question using a model that includes entry, selection to exporting activity, physical capital accumulation and endogenous labor supply. We determine that once...

We study the effect of financial shocks in labor market dynamics. We build a model with two types of labor, two types of capital and both search and financial frictions. We find that financial shocks, modeled as exogenous disturbances to the borrowing constraint of firms, can generate realistic...

Spanish Abstract:</B> Con base en el universo de emisores del mercado de renta variable en Colombia se construye un índice de precios, retornos y dividendos para el período 1995- 2017. La serie de retornos totales del mercado accionario, que muestra un promedio histórico de 19.07% (0.60 en...

Many emerging economies have regulatory limits on foreign exchange rates net open positions of banks. We show that such limits leave the capital adequacy ratios of banks with investments in foreign subsidiaries more exposed to exchange rate fluctuations. We discuss alternative policies for...

We study the effects of financial shocks on labor markets in a model with both labor and financial frictions, two types of productive capital, physical and intangible, and in which only the former serves as collateral. A tighter borrowing constraint in this environment leads to a fall in credit...