Seminarios

Resumen: Desentrañamos empíricamente los efectos de corto y mediano plazo de los movimientos del tipo de cambio sobre la inversión de las empresas no financieras en Colombia entre 2005 y 2019. Encontramos que una depreciación estructural del peso afecta negativamente la...

Presentación del libro Central Bank Independence and Inflation: Lessons from Latin America, a cargo de su autor, el Dr. Luis I. Jácome (Profesor de la U. de Georgetwon). Palabras de apertura del Gerente General, Leonardo Villar.

Resumen:  This paper examines the effect of female empowerment in media on female labor market outcomes using Latin American telenovelas. Using generative AI, He construct a Female Empowerment Index (FEI) for these TV shows from 1960 to 2024. he show that FEI exposure...

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Resumen: This paper examines the sharp decline in fertility across Latin America using both period and cohort measures. Combining Vital Statistics, Census microdata, and UN population data, we decompose changes in fertility by age, education, and joint age–education groups. We...

Resumen: In this paper, we develop a scalable micro-macro modeling framework that integrates linear multivariate time series models with nonlinear panel models to investigate to what extent oil supply shocks affect household inflation expectations in the Euro area in a...

Resumen: National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, data accessibility and interpretability, limit the impact of these...

Resumen: This paper examines the causal effects of inflation targeting on inflation levels using the synthetic control method. It provides a comprehensive analysis by estimating the impact of inflation targeting on the consumer price index for each country that adopted the...

Resumen: Some studies have expressed concern that the Gaussian-inverse Wishart–Haar prior typically employed in estimating sign-identified VAR models may be unintentionally informative about the prior for the structural responses. We discuss what features to look for in this...

Resumen: Slums are widely viewed as disadvantaged areas characterized by substandard housing and negative neighborhood spillovers that constrain local economic development. Governments typically respond with one of two place-based interventions: (a) in-situ upgrading that...

Resumen: We study quantile difference-indifferences (DiD) in panel settings and clarify the relationship between conditional and unconditional quantile DiD estimands. We formalize Conditional Quantile DiD (CQDD) and Unconditional Quantile DiD (UCQDD), show that they coincide...

Resumen: The high level of informality and the low level of savings observed in developing countries are fundamentally linked because informal workers have limited access to formal financial institutions. We study this link by developing and estimating a labor market model where...

Resumen: This paper analyzes labor earnings dynamics in Colombia using administrative Social Security records for the universe of formal workers from 2009 to 2024. We present stylized facts on earnings dispersion, growth, and volatility following the Global Repository of Income...

Resumen: Private credit, often associated with unsecured lending, has experienced remarkable growth in recent years. We use U.S. loan-level data to show that total outstanding amounts of secured direct loans now surpass unsecured direct loans. Loans are more likely to be secured...

Resumen: We develop a New Keynesian model with financial frictions to study how corporate capital structure shapes static and dynamic monetary policy tradeoffs through the supply side. Ex post, when corporate leverage is high, monetary tightening contracts both demand and supply...

Presentar los resultados del Reporte del Banco Mundial: “La vía rápida hacia nuevas competencias: Programas cortos de educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe”, la perspectiva de los Programas de Cursos Cortos (PCC) en el Departamento de Antioquia, y propiciar una discusión...

Resumen: Esta investigación evalúa la implementación de un programa de crédito-beca para estudiantes económicamente desfavorecidos con bajo desempeño académico sobre variables de resultado de la educación superior. Utilizando un diseño de regresión discontinua con datos de...

Resumen: This paper examines the effects of African ethnic institutions on economic development in the Americas through the lens of the Colombian Pacific lowlands. We trace the African origins of Afro-Colombians by linking a wealth of ethnographical sources with contemporary...

Resumen: This paper examines the pervasiveness of tax evasion among firms in Indonesia and the characteristics associated with higher levels of noncompliance. Tax evasion is estimated through a randomized, double-list experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey of...