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The Board of Directors of Banco de la República reiterates that its inflation target is 3.0%, within a range between 2.0% and 4.0%. The Board will continue to carefully monitor the behavior of inflation and the forecasts for inflation and economic activity in the country, as well as the…

At a meeting today, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Colombia set the inflation target for 2009 within a range of 4.5% to 5.5%, with the specific target for legal purposes being 5%.  It also set the mid-point of the inflation target-range for 2010 at 4% and is confident that…

At a meeting today, the Board of Directors of Banco de la República set the inflation target range for 2008 at 3.5% to 4.5%, with 4% as the specific target for legal effects. This decision is consistent with the announcement in November 2006.It also decided the midpoint for target inflation in 2009…

Inflation targeting is a monetary policy scheme adopted since the beginning of the century by the Board of Directors of Banco de la República to comply with the constitutional mandate of preserving the purchasing power of the currency and promoting sustainable economic growth.

After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the…

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This paper examines whether central banks in Latin America have implemented conventional inflation targeting (IT) prescriptions, with a focus on foreign exchange intervention and official reserves accumulation policies. To this end, the paper reviews the experiences of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and…

Sudden stops seem to create the perfect environment for disinflation, especially when central banks defend the exchange rate by increasing interest rates. We propose a variation of the output gap model that incorporates the sudden stop shock. The use of the model in policy analysis shows that fear…

The informal sector is an extensive phenomenon in developing countries. While some of its implications have drawn considerable attention in the literature, one relatively unexplored aspect has to do with the saving patterns of workers and firms and how these might influence aggregate savings and…

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We study endogenous growth within a model with occupational choice in which innovators produce ideas, within an asymmetric information framework. Each innovator has private knowledge of their production costs. Developers offer innovators non-linear contract schemes that affect both the number of…

Political economists have traditionally been indifferent to the communicative construction of money and central banking in the public sphere. It does not matter to them whether monetary affairs are rendered as a rational game over the preservation of the value of the currency or, for example, as a…

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General ObjectiveIt is an interactive space that promotes education and spreads out central banking topics. It aims to allow its visitors to learn through games about subjects related to money, inflation, the economic system, and monetary policy, as well as Banco de la República’s (the Central Bank…