This document determines, for a sample of Latin American countries, to what extent short-term variations in total factor productivity (TFP) are infl uenced by changes in institutional quality. Our empirical strategy is two-folded. First, we use statis-tical tools borrowed from factor analysis to...

En este artículo se estima para Colombia la tasa de interés natural (TIN) para el período 1982-2005, con base en las metodologías propuestas por Laubach y Williams (2001) y Mésonnier y Renne (2004). Un modelo neokeynesiano es la base de la estimación de la TIN de “mediano plazo” como...

This paper quantifi es the exchange rate pass-through effects on import prices within a sample of Colombian manufactured imports. Also, whether the foreign exchange and infl ation regimes affect the degree of pass-through is evaluated. The analytical framework used was a mark-up model. The main...

This paper reviews the close relationship between business cycle and public fi nances in Colombia. The international evidence shows that cyclical move-ments in output systematically affect the balance of public fi nances. Therefore, the assessment of cy-clical and structural components of the...

In this paper I consider the role of education poli-cies in redistribution of income when individuals differ in two aspects: ability and inherited wealth. I discuss the extent to which the rules that emerge in unidimensional settings apply also in the bidimen-sional setting considered in this...

The effects of the Pension Fund Managers (PFM) behavior on the Foreign Exchange (FX) market may be important, given the size of their portfolio and their possible market power. Some authors argue that when big investors like PFM trade large vol-umes in the FX market, they may infl uence other...

En este documento se busca identifi car los determi-nantes de acceso al crédito de los hogares colombia-nos; así, se encuentra que características tales como el ingreso, la riqueza, la posición geográfi ca, el ac-ceso a la seguridad social, el nivel de educación y la edad infl uyen sobre...

This paper exploits the long history of the minimum wage in Colombia in order to see whether it has im-proved the living conditions of low income families and reduced income inequality. This paper also ex-plores how the minimum wage may have distorted market outcomes in the process. We fi nd...

Utilizando la información de los decretos guber-namentales sobre plantas de personal y remunera-ciones (salarios básicos y otros conceptos de la remuneración, como lo son los pagos por gastos de representación, la prima de dirección, el subsi-dio de alimentación, entre otros), se presenta...

Este trabajo avanza en el estudio de la convergen-cia en el ingreso regional en Colombia, mediante el análisis de las cifras de ingreso departamental calculadas recientemente por el Centro de Estu-dios Ganaderos y Agrícolas CEGA. Los resultados muestran un proceso de polarización entre...