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In the past decade the Colombian Economic Authorities undertook a series of measures that reduced the structural fiscal deficit, decreased the Government currency mismatch and deepened the local fixed-rate public bond market. This paper presents some evidence suggesting that these improvements...
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This document analyzes the macroeconomic effects of a boom in a small-open economy’s natural-resource sector. We study the effects of this shock on the most important macroeconomic variables, the resource reallocation across sectors and on welfare under alternative fiscal rules. We employ a...
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En este trabajo se muestra que el EMBI-Colombia está determinado por el apetito por riesgo de los inversionistas internacionales y que su respuesta es no lineal y está influenciada por la postura fiscal del gobierno. Se encuentra también que la relación entre estas variables sufrió un...
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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 rate, and the...
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In most economies, macroeconomic policy is conducted by two or more independent authorities. In general, each policymaker has a different piece of information about the state of the economy, and this information is different from the one held by the private sector. We extend the model of James...
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To evaluate whether transparency is beneficial, it is usual to assume that the central bank may choose one of two options, opacity versus truthful communication. However, the monetary policymaker may have incentives to misrepresent private information so as to reduce economic volatility by...
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El presente trabajo intenta cuestionar la idea, común en la literatura sobre transparencia, de que los anuncios de los bancos centrales son veraces per se. El documento presenta un modelo sencillo que ilustra el por qué el hacedor de política monetaria podría comportarse estratégicamente al...
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El presente trabajo intenta cuestionar la idea, común en la literatura sobre transparencia, de que los anuncios de los bancos centrales son veraces per se. El documento presenta un modelo sencillo que ilustra el por qué el hacedor de política monetaria podría comportarse estratégicamente al...
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Durante las dos últimas décadas, los mercados de deuda pública se han desarrollado significativamente en las economías emergentes. A pesar de las ventajas que el desarrollo de este mercado tiene sobre el sector financiero, la volatilidad en el precio de los bonos soberanos conlleva riesgos...
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This paper surveys some facts relevant for the understanding of the Colombian experience with public finance and debt since 1923. The stylized facts are classified in three groups as follows: first, facts associated with the dependence of the economy on the external sector; second, facts which...
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