Bogotá, Colombia

Analisis of the quaterly Inflation Report of September 2013.

Analisis of the monthly Inflation Report of October 2013.

The international crisis by the end of the previous decade brought very important changes in terms of degree, size, and volatility of capital flows to emerging markets. These became a challenge for their economic authorities because the negative effects likely to affect macroeconomic variables…

Bankruptcy is a threat to financial stability, if a company fails to meet its financial obligations. Obviously, the risk to financial stability increases with the number of liquidated corporations and the size of the debt each has acquired. Moreover, in a scenario characterized by a significant…

Several governments still need to adjust their fiscal balance after the Great Recession. In this paper, I construct a novel dataset to estimate the revenue potential and expenditure cutting space for a cross-section of 150 countries, and decompose their fiscal capacity into specific taxes and…

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not…

In this paper we study the structural determinants of differentials in unemployment rates and labour markets’ performance for colombian cities.

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) Board of Directors (BDBR) has a regular schedule of meetings. In 8 of its 12 sessions the Board makes decisions on the level of the monetary policy rate. The other 4 are ordinary meetings, where other decisions are made.

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Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) Board of Directors (BDBR) has a regular schedule of meetings. In 8 of its 12 sessions the Board makes decisions on the level of the monetary policy rate. The other 4 are ordinary meetings, where other decisions are made.

See additional…