Cartagena, Colombia

I must begin by saying something that you know very well. The policy interest rate of Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) has drastically increased over the past year and a half, completing an increase of 11 pp since the beginning of the current cycle of increases in September…

Using a novel database of historical series of revenues and expenses of different levels of government between 1923 and 2020, in this paper we describe the evolution of the vertical and horizontal imbalances between central government, states, and municipalities in Colombia. The analysis…

One explanation for the increasing number of hectares with coca cultivation is that eradication strategies displace coca crops but fail to completely clear affected areas. In the drug policy literature, that dynamic shifting is commonly known as the balloon effect. This study…

We study the impact of natural resource royalties on educational outcomes in Colombia. We analyze a reform enacted in 2012 that made the distribution of these royalties more equitable. Before the reform, most royalties were assigned to the regions where the natural resources…

According to the World Migration Report 2020, the number of international migrants increased from 84 million in 1970 to 272 million in 2019, accounting for 3.5% of the world’s population. This paper investigates the aggregated effect of emigration on the tax revenue of sending…

We study the labor market effects of the Venezuelan migration shock on female labor market outcomes in Colombia using a Bartik-instrument approach.For our identification strategy we leverage regional variation from pull factors and time variation from push factors. Our findings show…

Emerging and Frontier Markets: Capital Flows, Resiliency, Risks, and Growth - Supported by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR), and Banco de la República (The Central Bank of Colombia)

Emerging and Frontier Markets: Capital Flows, Resiliency, Risks, and Growth - Supported by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR), and Banco de la República (The Central Bank of Colombia)

Presentación realizada en el Banco de la República, Sucursal Cartagena. 

Presented at CVII Meeting of Central Bank Governors of CEMLA; Board of Governors and Assembly Meetings.

Intervención del doctor José Darío Uribe Escobar, Gerente General del Banco de la República, ante un grupo de inversionistas internacionales reunidos en la ciudad de Cartagena que asisten al Seminario ofrecido por Bear Sterns.

Presented at FLAR-CAF XIII Annual Conference

Presented at the Government Borrowers Forum.

Remarks presented at the Bear Stearns 2006 Colombia Conference.

The Colombian islands of San Andres and Providence, located 180 kilometers of the coast of Nicaragua, and initially populated by English settlers and their slaves, were characterized until 1953 by having a population which was predominantly English speaking, Protestant and black. However, since…