This paper analyzes the effects of a contractionary monetary policy on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Colombia and its 13 main cities between January 2001 and February 2020. For this purpose, Vector Autoregression models (VAR) are used, from which impulse-response functions are obtained....

By the mid-2000s, Latin American countries had achieved macroeconomic stability: inflation was low, fiscal results were balanced, and external accounts were on a sustainable path, far from the frequent threat of currency crises. Although the trajectories that had brought them there had broadly...

By the mid-2000s, Latin American countries had achieved macroeconomic stability: inflation was low, fiscal results were balanced, and external accounts were on a sustainable path, far from the frequent threat of currency crises. Although the trajectories that had brought them there had broadly...

By the mid-2000s, Latin American countries had achieved macroeconomic stability: inflation was low, fiscal results were balanced, and external accounts were on a sustainable path, far from the frequent threat of currency crises. Although the trajectories that had brought them there had broadly...

By the mid-2000s, Latin American countries had achieved macroeconomic stability: inflation was low, fiscal results were balanced, and external accounts were on a sustainable path, far from the frequent threat of currency crises. Although the trajectories that had brought them there had broadly...

This paper reviews the growing body of evidence on the relative economic standing of different regions of the world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In general, it does not find support for Eurocentric claims regarding Western Europe’s early economic lead. The Eurocentric...

Both theoretical and empirical literature has identified several channels through which FDI influence economic growth in Latin America. This study however examines the impact on economic output growth using aggregate production function augmented with FDI inflows, policy reforms and the...

The paper shows the advantages and handicaps of implementing an inflation target (IT) regime, from a Post-Keynesian and, thus, an institutional stance. It is Post-Keynesian as long as it does not perceive any benefit in the mainstream split between monetary and fiscal policies. And it is...

Argentina and Canada started their industrialization processes while exporting natural resources and importing capital goods. These two nations were sparsely populated but received significant inflows of European immigrants since the second half of the nineteenth century. Until the start of...

This work wants to describe the different positions that adopted revolutionary organizations linked to Peronism when faced with the implementation of the economic policies by the peronist governements from 1973-1976. the analysis is focused mainly on the visions by Montoneros/ FAR, by Fuerzas...