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This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on wo quasi-natural experiments" in history, the division of...
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En los últimos años la tasa de desempleo colombiana ha tenido una tendencia decreciente, sin generar presiones inflacionarias importantes. Una posible explicación a este fenómeno, es que la tasa de desempleo de equilibrio (NAIRU) haya caído, reflejando mejoras en la eficiencia del mercado....
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El estudio analiza la evolución del sector petrolero colombiano en los últimos 30 años, así como el impacto que su desarrollo ha tenido en el crecimiento y desarrollo de la economía colombiana. Con un análisis descriptivo y empírico con modelos SVAR, se concluye que si bien la producción...
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Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not...
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Abstract 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...
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This paper presents a novel monthly dataset of job vacancies in Bogota between 1960 and 2010. The dataset was constructed by counting the number of help-wanted announcements published in the most important newspaper with national circulation-namely, El Tiempo. We describe the methodology used to...
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Este trabajo busca determinar si la política monetaria puede proporcionar una explicación parcial a las diferencias que existen en el comportamiento de los ciclos económicos entre las regiones de Colombia, así como también establecer la importancia que tienen en la explicación de estas...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es responder dos preguntas de política relacionadas con el uso de un depósito no remunerado como forma de control de capitales en una economía pequeña y abierta como la colombiana: ¿Son un instrumento efectivo para reducir el endeudamiento externo de los agentes...
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This paper challenges the conventional view according to which disinflations in Latin America -even from low and moderate peaks- have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that overcomes some of the shortcomings of the traditional methods used to measure the...
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This paper studies the behavior of several macroeconomic variables during disinflationary episodes in Latin-America and the Caribbean (LAC). In particular, it focuses on disinflations from low and moderate peaks for the period 1973-2001. The methodology used for studying the average behavior of...
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