Bogotá, Colombia

Human health is increasingly viewed as central in economic development, both as a measure of development and as an input. Early mortality and excessive morbidity are serious constraints to economic growth. The impact of pollution on human health has recently become a focus of research in…

The document "AIR POLLUTION IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA: A Concentration-Response Approach" was presented on 27 April 2005.

Presentated by Olivier J. Blanchard in Bogotá.

Presentación de Adolfo Meisel y Margarita Vega Acevedo en The 3rd International Conference on Economics and Human Biology

Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg.

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The paper provides a model of the banking firm in the macroeconomy intended to explain what determines the interest rate spread. A key factor explaining the spread in our model is the resource cost of capital. A statistical result confirms the prediction of the model, that is, the bank's spread…

Candidates with a valid disability certificate who meet one of the following requirements: hold a technical qualification, have completed at least 50% of a technological programme, or have completed at least 30% of a professional undergraduate programme, in fields related to Administrative…

A price-setting mechanism based on a markup over variable costs is studied for the quite different inflationary experiences of Argentina and Colombia. The paper pursues a twofold strategy: first, it test the null hypothesis of a constant markup against the alternative of a variable one; second,…

This piece was part of a research on the colombian inflationary experience published as: The Rise and Perpetuation of a Moderate Inflation, Colombia 1970-1991. It collects together the summaries of the response of Colombian policy-makers to the shocks identified in that paper. Since 1963 the…

Why justice is unresponsive to crime: Why justice is un responsive to crime: The case of cocine in Colombia

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A Statement of the Colombian Constitutional Court has mandated wage indexation on the basis of past inflation. A simple model with a wage price system, a real block, and an inflation targeting interest rule is calibrated to resemble price setting in the Colombian economy and to analyze the…

The construction of coincident indexes for the economic activity of a country is a common practice since the fifties. The methodologies vary from heuristic methods to probabilistic or statistical ones. In this paper, we present a new procedure for estimating a coincident index of the state of…

I build a general equilibrium, financial accelerator model that incorporates an explicit technology for the intermediary sector. A credit multiplier emerges because of a borrowing constraint that is a function of asset prices, internal funds and lending rates. With this financial friction I show…

The study of the asymmetric behavior of macroeconomic variables over the business cycles phases has had a long tradition in economics. In this work we find evidence in favor of the hypothesis of having a STAR-type nonlinear asymmetric behavior of the economic activity, over the last two decades…

HOW UNCERTAÍN ARE NAIRU ESTÍMATES ÍN COLOMBÍA? HOW UNCERTAÍN ARE NAIRU ESTÍMATES ÍN COLOMBÍA?

The Colombian Political Constitution and Articles 13 and 14 of Law 31 of 1992 sets forth that Banco de la República (the “Bank”), as the central bank of Colombia, is the administrator of the foreign reserves of the Republic of Colombia and also the fiscal agent of the Government of Colombia.