En este artículo se explora empíricamente el vínculo entre la volatilidad y el desalineamiento de la tasa de cambio real (TCR) con la actividad de las empresas en Colombia durante el período 2000-2011. Se analiza su efecto sobre las ventas externas, la productividad, la inversión y las...

This paper uses a survey on wage formation applied to 1305 Colombian firms to study wage‐setting decisions of newly hired employees. The survey indicates that wages of the newly hired are based mainly on a predefined wage structure. This may help to explain, in part, the presence of downward...

The relationship between infrastructure capital and economic growth has been controversial. A number of empirical studies have found very high returns to infrastructure investment (Aschauer, 1989; Canning and Fay, 1993). But, the robustness of the results have been questioned in other empirical...

The existence of wage differentials across sectors is a widely observed phenomenon. This paper provides new elements to understand inter and intra-sectoral wage differentials in Colombia by analysing a wage setting survey of 1305 firms and emphasizing the role of firm characteristics. The...

El objetivo de este artículo es determinar cuáles son los grados de sustitución existente entre los activos. Para este propósito se presentan dos modelos. En el primero se sigue la metodología sugerida por Gramlich y Kalchbrenner y en el segundo se utiliza la forma funcional presentada en...

El Banco de la República (Banco Central de Colombia)obtuvo independencia formal del gobierno, primero, a través de la Nueva Constitución expedida a mediados de 1991 y luego, mediante la Ley del Banco de diceimbre de 1992. El próposito de este documento es describir el papel del Banco Central...

The purpose of this paper is to analize the links between central bank independence and foreign exchange policies, in the light of the recent experience of the major Latin American countries. To that end, the paper stars with a brief review of the literature on the subject. The second section on...