Colombian economy has the typical small-open economy cycle: smooth consumption, higher volatility in investment ; procyclical consumption, investment and imports; countercyclical trade balance. The objective of this paper is to identify the stylized facts and to replicate them quantitative and...

This paper presents a univariate model that analyzes systematic changes in the behavior of the business cycle in the Dominican Republic, capturing changes in average growth and identifying differences between contractions and expansions with respect to their persistence and duration. To do so,...

In this paper we construct real activity composite indicators for service, industry and agricultural sectors, using of principal components analysis. The proposed indicators are the result of the first principal component that summarizes the common movements shared by the series of each sector....

En esta investigación se describe los hechos estilizados de los ciclos sectoriales de los negocios privados en el Perú desde inicios de los 90s. Las reformas estructurales deberían reflejarse en una mayor integración productiva generada por un proceso de formación de complementariedades...

En los sistemas de industrias de productos simples y capital circulante sin recursos naturales, elaborados en el marco de la teoría clásica del valor, las tasas de ganancia, uniformes o no, pueden ser interpretadas en términos físicos, y los precios satisfacen tanto las condiciones de...

En este trabajo se emplea un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico estocástico, en el que las distorsiones estocásticas afectan la productividad doméstica. El modelo para una economía pequeña y abierta es calibrado para Colombia logrando obtener algunas regularidades de los ciclos...

In September 2007, a serious financial crisis became evident in the developed countries, due to serious mistakes in economic policy. Even against their own ideology, governments have not spared measures to reduce its effects, have failed to contain it, and it advances towards a global recession...

The paper seeks to integrate the theoretical developments in the field of imperfect competition and monopoly, and operation of the firm in such conditions, with the theories of income distribution, particularly among the macroeconomic aggregates of capital and labor. And formulating a working...

The existence of incomplete financial markets, in an environment of uncertainty, is one of the problems of the Latin American economies, that determines a suboptimal path of public spending, with the consequent loss of social welfare. The existence of a high degree of positive correlation...

Portfolios dollarization, understood as the holding of assets in foreign currency by domestic agents, has become a recurrent process in economies that present high levels of macroeconomic and exchange rate stress, among which the Argentine Republic stands out. One of the objectives of this paper...