Introduction -- Real Business Cycle (RBC) model -- Basic New-Keynesian (NK) model -- New-Keynesian model with wage stickiness -- New-Keynesian model with habit formation and non-Ricardian agents -- New-Keynesian Model with adjustment costs on investment and under-utilization of maximum installed...

This paper aims to shed additional light on the existence of opportunistic and partisan political-business cycles in the Brazilian economy over the 1996-2016 period. To that end, it relies on two different approaches: (I) an Oaxaca model in the spirit of Blinder and Watson (2016); and (II) a...

We build a DSGE model to study the asymmetries of FDI shocks in an economy like Colombia. Besides nominal wage and price rigidities, we use the fact that Colombia has two productive and differentiated regions, Bogota that produces more than 25% of Colombia GDP (DANE, 2016) and the rest of the...