Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird die Frage aufgeworfen, inwieweit die Regierung Kolumbiens die inflationäre Entwicklung und somit das inflationäre Steueraufkommen benötigt, um Staatsdefizite zu finanzieren. Die Untersuchung umfaßt den Zeitraum 1980-1991

Estimation of conventional Taylor rules for Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru shows that central banks increase their repo rate in response to increases in the output gap and, except in Peru, to deviations of inflation expectations from target. Using a Markov-Switching methodology, it is found...

After adopting an inflation targeting framework for monetary policy at the turn of the twenty-first century, Banco de la República, the Central Bank of Colombia, started actively using the monetary policy interest rate as its key policy tool. This paper examines the interest rate pass-through...

"This volume incorporates seven articles on monetary and banking history in Colombia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Uses archival documents as input for macroeconomic analysis"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57