Bogotá, Colombia

In this paper we study the structural determinants of differentials in unemployment rates and labour markets’ performance for colombian cities.

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not…

Several governments still need to adjust their fiscal balance after the Great Recession. In this paper, I construct a novel dataset to estimate the revenue potential and expenditure cutting space for a cross-section of 150 countries, and decompose their fiscal capacity into specific taxes and…

Bankruptcy is a threat to financial stability, if a company fails to meet its financial obligations. Obviously, the risk to financial stability increases with the number of liquidated corporations and the size of the debt each has acquired. Moreover, in a scenario characterized by a significant…

Analisis of the monthly Inflation Report of October 2013.

Since 1994 Banco de la República has been successfully running an External Management Program. The main objectives of the program are to: a) enhance the performance of Colombia’s Foreign Reserves Investment Portfolio; b) provide training and transfer knowledge to the Bank’s staff; and c) support…

Analisis of the quaterly Inflation Report of September 2013.

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