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Taking into account the risk premium within Fisher equation and the rapid decrease of inflation in Colombia at the end of last decade we test the hypothesis of linearity for the expected inflation differentials between 6 and 12 months ahead built by assuming four different expectation mechanisms...
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Se presenta evidencia clara a favor de la hipótesis de que la estructura a plazo real contiene información sobre las expectativas de la actividad económica en Colombia para los plazos entre 6 y 12, 6 y 24, y 12 y 24 meses adelante. Los signos de los coeficientes estimados son, en todos los...
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This paper contributes to the theoretical analysis of the informal sector in the search and matching framework. Building upon the work of Albrecht et al. (2009), where the informal sector consists of unregulated self-employment, I describe the search and matching equilibrium in an economy with...
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This paper analyzes efficiency in an economy with an informal sector that consists of unregulated self-employment, and where there are no costs of being informal, (Albrecht et al. (2009)). First, assuming workers in the formal sector are ex-ante heterogeneous, I show that this type of economy is...
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This paper analyzes the effect of social security and lump sum layoff payment in an economy with an informal sector and savings, where the search effort is unobserved. I characterize the optimal consumption/search/non-participant strategy assuming that workers are risk averse and that formal...
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A small open macroeconomic model, in which an optimal interest rate rule emerges to drive the inflation behavior, is used to model inflation within an inflation targeting framework. This set up is used to estimate the relationship between commodity prices shocks and the inflation process in a...
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En Colombia la tasa de desempleo femenina es más alta que la masculina. Al concentrarnos en la duración del desempleo, se verifica la hipótesis de que las mujeres comprometidas (i.e., casadas o en unión libre) tienen episodios de desempleo de mayor duración que los hombres de igual...
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Se presentan series vacantes para Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Manizales, Medellín y Pasto en el período 1976-2012. El conteo de los anuncios fue realizado utilizando información de los periódicos más importantes de dichas ciudades. Las series muestran fluctuaciones importantes...
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Se documenta el traspaso de los precios internacionales de alimentos y energía a un número importante de precios de las canastas del consumidor y del productor, la inflación básica y las expectativas para los últimos veinte años en Colombia. Se estiman efectos de primera y segunda ronda...
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