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Este artículo responde la pregunta: ¿ha sido el atraso en la provisión de infraestructura de transporte en Colombia, ocasionado en parte por niveles históricamente bajos de inversión, un obstáculo importante para su crecimiento económico, integración regional e internacional? La…
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In Colombia, agreements are hard to reach. However, there was consensus in the National Constitutional Assembly, among the participants from different ideologies and parties, on the advisability of comprehensively reforming Banco de la República and turning it into an independent central bank.…
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Poco más de un año después del comienzo de una pandemia global, esta edición del Reporte de Estabilidad Financiera ofrece un balance del papel del sistema financiero en la respuesta de la economía colombiana a la emergencia sanitaria, así como un análisis de su situación de cara a la…
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From an analysis that is neither accounting nor financial but economic, Rincón-Castro and Delgado-Rojas (2017) calculate for Colombia the average effective rates of taxation on consumption and the factors of production labor and capital, for the period between 1994 and …
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- Publicación |Abstract We study how capital controls and domestic macroprudential policy tame credit supply booms, respectively targeting foreign and domestic bank debt. For identification, we exploit the simultaneous introduction of capital controls on foreign exchange (FX) debt inflows and an increase of…
- Publicación |Abstract The availability of measures of regional economic activity in a timely manner has become a priority, especially for evaluating the economic shocks provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, we developed a monthly coincident indicator of economic activity for the Colombian…
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This paper studies the impact of extreme weather events on the local tax revenue across Colombian municipalities. We follow a two-step approach to evaluate to what extent a municipality’s tax revenue depends on natural disasters taking place both locally and in its trade…
- Publicación |Abstract In this article, we study the impact of exchange rate depreciation and volatility on the sovereignyield curve during the 2008 - 2020 timeframe. We do this by estimating univariate and multivariatetime series models and a threshold vector autoregressive model.
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The recovery in total employment observed since mid-2020 came to a halt in the early months of 2020, largely because of the waves of Covid-19 contagion, which involved self-care responses on the part of individuals, as well the implementation of isolation measures in several cities to lessen…
- Publicación |Abstract This document describes the evolution of the liquidity conditions of the Colombian public debt market, using a set of tools that capture several liquidity characteristics or dimensions. An indicator is proposed, which combines all these tools incorporating a broad set of information…
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Economic policy decision-making requires constantly assessing the state of economic activity. However, this is not an easy task: offcial figures have significant lags, and the timely information is usually partial and has different frequencies.
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Rural schools are usually behind in terms of learning, and part of this could be related to geographical isolation. We explore this hypothesis, assessing the effect of distance between rural schools and local governments on learning in Colombia. We use spatial discontinuous regression…
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During the last two decades, the use of fiscal rules has increased significantly around the world. Although international evidence has highlighted some benefits from its implementation, the experiences of Latin America in the mplementation and the results have been…
- Publicación |AbstractExtreme rainfall events are expected to become more frequent and more intense in the future. Because their mitigation is a challenge and their cost to human life is large, this paper studies the impact of preemptive investment against natural disasters on the future occurrence of landslides…
- Publicación |Abstract We study the interdependence of FX and Treasury Bonds (TES) markets in Colombia. To do this, we estimate a heteroskedasticity identified VAR model on the returns of the COP/USD exchange rate (TRM) and bond prices, as well as event-analysis models for return volatilities, number of…
- Publicación |Abstract This document offers an exercise that quantifies on the Colombia CPI the maximum possible impact in accounting terms of some price reliefs decreed by the national government. This impact would not necessarily coincide with the official CPI figures, due to the presence of multiple…
