Cardozo-Ortiz, Pamela Andrea

Throughout the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21), financial markets revolved around increased optimism regarding expectations of a faster-than-anticipated global economic recovery, led by the US and China. This optimism stemmed from increased fiscal support, continued monetary stimulus, advancements…

In the last four years, Colombia has faced some of the events that have had the greatest impact on economic performance in more than a century. The international price of oil fell to less than a third of its value between June 2014 and January 2016, and again between September 2018 and April…

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information for decision-making, accountability, and public dissemination. Particularly, the Financial Markets Report is framed within the principle of public dissemination and contributes to the Bank’s service of providing quality…

Since the introduction of exchange rate flexibility and the inflation targeting regime in 1999, Banco de la República (BR), Colombia's monetary and exchange rate authority, has intervened assiduously in the foreign exchange market, except in the last five years.

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information for decision-making, accountability, and public dissemination. Particularly, the Financial Markets Report is framed within the principle of public dissemination and contributes to the Bank’s service of providing quality…

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information for decision-making, accountability, and public dissemination. Particularly, the Financial Markets Report is framed within the principle of public dissemination and contributes to the Bank’s service of providing quality…

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information for decision-making, accountability, and public dissemination. Particularly, the Financial Markets Report is framed within the principle of public dissemination and contributes to the Bank’s service of providing quality…

Two FX policy issues are discussed based on the recent Colombian experience. First, the increased participation of foreign investors in local bond markets since 2014 induced a reassessment of international reserve adequacy. We present the resulting LCR-type methodology to evaluate…

Although transactions of foreign exchange market intermediaries with the real sector in the peso-dollar market are low in comparison to the ones with offshore agents, it is important to understand the behavior of the real sector and its impact on the exchange market. This paper assesses…

We analyse three models to determine the conditions under which reserve requirements are used as a part of an optimal monetary policy framework in an inflation targeting regime. In all cases the Central Bank (CB) minimizes an objective function that depends on deviations of inflation from its…

Some authors have worked on the relationship between macroeconomic variables and the term structure of interest rates. In particular, theory says that the shape of the curve reveals valuable insights regarding the behavior of the macro variables such as inflation and growth expectations.…