In recent years, the institutions of the Colombian financial system have expanded their operations and have made their ownership structures more complex given the presence of different financial groups in various lines of business (such as banking intermediation).
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In an increasingly globalized world, it is common for companies, governments, and households to make transactions in currencies other than those of their own economy. This type of capital movement makes it possible, for example, to increase current spending, finance capital expansion projects,…
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Throughout 2021, Banco de la República participated, together with the other safety net authorities of the Colombian financial system, in the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) coordinated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). This box briefly describes the…
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This document reviews the potential macroeconomic effects of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the use of individuals and businesses. A careful selection of the architecture, and the economic and technological design aspects of this digital form of central bank money…
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This box analyzes the recent changes in a battery of indicators on the financial position of households and their trends with respect to their historical behavior. These indicators were calculated based on the quarterly national accounts by institutional sector published by DANE and the…
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La presencia de descalces cambiarios es un factor que puede incrementar la vulnerabilidad externa de la economía por la vía de la inversión, el crecimiento, la liquidez y la solvencia de las firmas que se ven sometidas a este fenómeno. En el Recuadro 1 del Reporte de Estabilidad Financiera del…
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As a complement to the analysis presented in Chapter 2 for insurance companies with respect to the development of their portfolio, profitability, and capital adequacy, this box provides an account of the performance of insurance policies issuance, claims, and operational profitability by line of…
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Local labor markets in Colombia are exceptionally heterogeneous. In particular, the cities of the Caribbean region have higher labor informality and lower unemployment rates, compared to the rest of the country. This work is part of a research agenda on local labor markets in Colombia…
- Publicación |Nuestros resultados muestran que los controles de capital reducen las entradas de deuda en moneda extranjera y que la reducción es relativamente más fuerte para las empresas con mayor endeudamiento en moneda extranjera ex ante.
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- Publicación |Profundizar en los artistas, las técnicas y/o las influencias internas o externas en su creación ayudarían a entender la historia del arte de la ciudad. Esto podría contribuir a desarrollar la oferta cultural que la ciudad necesita para que los museos, y la actividad…
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We show that capital controls (CC), by slowing-down firm debt-growth in the boom, improve firm performance during crises. Exploiting a tax on foreign-currency (FX) debt inflows in Colombia before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and multiple firm-level and loan-level…
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Developing countries have a vast informal sector generally associated with low productivity levels. The response of informal employment to tax policies might depend on labor market rigidities. This paper proposes a theoretical framework consisting of a search and…
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We examine the extent in which the ratios of book-to-market and earnings-to-price predict excess asset returns in an emerging market economy like Colombia. We want to find the magnitude in which these ratios help to forecast excess returns and if there is any evidence …
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This paper analyses the behavior of household consumption in Colombia during Covid-19 post pandemic. Initially, it introduces a regional comparison emphasizing in the severity of lockdown and the government fiscal responses. Then, it describes the dynamics of the main consumption…
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We use Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks, a deep learning technique, to forecast Colombian headline inflation one year ahead through two approaches. The first one uses only information from the target variable, while the second one incorporates additional information from…
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We bring together the largest meta-analysis ever conducted in the macroeconomic literature to investigate the effects of central bank credibility on monetary policy. With nearly 1,200 surveyed effects, we first confirm that: (i) conventional policy significantly affects inflation and…
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Over the past 30 years, monetary and macroprudential policy in Colombia evolved towards the pursuit of a low and credible inflation target and a stable financial system. The protracted inflation that began in the early seventies was defeated at the turn of the century with the help of…
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Education in Colombia and Latin America is characterized by significant gaps in the quality of education as measured by standardized test scores. This paper assesses the impact of a Colombian program called SaberEs, which strengthens preparation for standardized…
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Inequality in access to high-quality education can hinder the ability of education to promote intergenerational mobility. Looking at the case of Colombia, one of the most unequal and least mobile countries in Latin America, we evaluate whether contemporary differences in access to…
