Desde finales de los 80 el sistema financiero colombiano ha experimentado cambios sensibles. En efecto, la liberalización financiera, el fortalecimiento de la regulación prudencial, la conversión de un número importante de sociedades en establecimientos de crédito, el aumento en los...

There is large body of empirical literature devoted to study the relationship between inflation and long-run growth. Recently, levine and Renelt (1992) encouraged by new developments in growth theory investigated, within a unified framework, the effet of a number of variables on per capita...

Colombian inflationary experience is explained using a theoretical model that stresses two elements: the effect of shocks and the type of policy designed to respond to them. The empirical investigation uses the event-study methodology and finds that the model successfully accounts for the main...

This paper offers some preliminary steps in the marriage of some of the theoretical foundations of thenew economic geography with spatial computable general equilibrium models. Modeling the spatial economy ofColombia using the traditional assumptions of CGE models makes little sense when one...

Colombia tiene una tasa de criminalidad excepcionalmente alta. Esta información se sostiene al menos para los últimos 20 años y se puede comprobar con las cifras sobre asesinatos en Colombia y en otros países. Mientras que en Colombia la tasa de homicidios fue de 77.5 por cada 100.000...

This paper reviews the relationship between the business cycle and public finances in Colombia. The evidence shows that cyclical movements in output systematically affect the situation of public finances. Hence, the distinction between the cyclical and permanent (i.e. structural) components of...

This paper tests the uncovered interest parity (UIP) hypothesis for the USD/COP exchange rate, using weekly data for the period from January 1994, when Colombia introduced its crawling band exchange rate regime, to August 2002. The study yields several interesting results. For the period October...

The analysis of the impacts of coffee bonanzas and crisis on the Colombian economy, given its importance, has been one of the favorite topics of research both by Colombian and foreing economists, Cárdenas (1991); Carkovic (1992); Cuddington (1986); Ocampo (1994); Posada (1992); Urrutia and...