Bogotá, Colombia

The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability…

The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability…

The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability…

This paper provides evidence of positive externalities in human capital that help to explain divergences in development worldwide. We estimate the supply and demand for human capital using a five-year panel involving 60 countries, covering the period 1980-2000, and found that there exists…

The Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) offers to the public this document, where all the details concerning the foreign reserve management are explained.

The Colombian Constitution and Law 31 of 1992, Article 14, assign the administration of international reserves to Banco de…

This paper looks at the question of central bank mandate and design in a larger historical context with the goal of understanding the rationale for the design of the European Central Bank (ECB), and also of developing a better understanding of how central banks will evolve over the next few…

Canadian financial institutions played an important role in the development of financial markets within Colombia’s urban centers. Specifically, insurance companies such as Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and Life Assurance Company of Canada were crucial in the expansion of the insurance…

This article presents a reconstruction of the history of Colombia’s central bank’s (Banco de la Republica) monetary policy between 1990 and 2010, during which explicit inflation targeting was adopted by October of 2000. To do so we developed a theoretical modified Taylor rule with interest rate…

Levels of interest rates below historical norms may have enhanced financial instability in both developed and in developing economies during the 2000´s. The risk-taking channel of monetary transmission policy is a recent theory that explains the interaction between risk perceptions of the…

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Theory-consistent models have to be kept small to be tractable. If they are to forecast well, they have to condition on data that are unmodelled, noisy, patchy and about the future. Agents can also use these data to form their own expectations. In this paper we illustrate a scheme for jointly…

Defining whether a financial institution is systemically important (or not) is challenging due to (i) the inevitability of combining complex importance criteria such as institutions’ size, connectedness and substitutability; (ii) the ambiguity of what an appropriate threshold for those criteria…

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