This paper describes the transmission of the recent financial crisis to Japan and compares the monetary policy reactions by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) with those during the 1990s, and with reactions by other major central banks. The paper first reviews the recent literature on the origins and...

In an inflation targeting regime, the best possible knowledge of demand-side inflationary pressure is of priority importance for monetary policy. In applied macroeconomic models, this is traditionally represented by the actual position of the cyclical component of GDP (the output gap). This...

The election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye as President of Senegal on March 24, 2024, after a turbulent electoral process, reflects the resilience of Senegal's democratic institutions. It provides an opportunity to strengthen transparent governance and combat inequality. It was the first time since...

Die Ankündigung der Libra Association, mit Libra eine private globale Währung zu emittieren, hat eine heftige Debatte über die damit verbundenen Chancen und Risiken ausgelöst. Befürworter erwarten, dass Libra das Geldsystem von seinen „staatlichen Fesseln“ befreien und den...

This study implements a regular vine copula methodology to evaluate the level of contagion among the exchange rates of six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) from June 2005 to April 2012. We measure contagion in terms of tail dependence coefficients,...

Network analysis has been applied to identify systemically important financial institutions after the 2008 financial crisis. Such applications have stressed the importance of centrality within the too-connected-to-fail concept. Yet, despite their well-known importance for financial stability,...

Este documento expone cómo se conforma y articula el mercado OTC de valores en el caso colombiano. Así mismo, en el marco del mercado de deuda pública local, con base en el análisis de redes complejas, este documento describe, caracteriza y compara al mercado OTC con los organizados (SEN y...

Resumen: La representación básica de la actividad económica en general se compone de un conjunto de mercados, en los cuales los agentes ofrecen y demandan bienes. Un mecanismo, generalmente las variaciones de precios, conlleva a la igualdad entre la oferta total y la demanda total en cada...

Este documento trata de realizar una verificación empírica de la nueva curva de Phillips neokeynesiana para la economía colombiana, para intentar comprobar si la dinámica inflacionaria es susceptible de ser explicada bajo fundamentos microeconómicos, y realizar de este modo una...

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...