Working Papers on Economics

We compute both seigniorage rate and  welfare cost of inflation rate in Colombia using a  Sidrauski-type model  in which preferences are separable functions of the service flows of  non-durable goods and  money holdings.  The set of the estimated parameters imply…

EFFICIENCY GAINS FROM THE ELIMINATION OF GLOBAL RESTRICTIONS ON LABOUR MOBILITY: AN ANALYSIS USING A MULTIREGIONAL CGE MODEL   EFFICIENCY GAINS FROM THE ELIMINATION OF GLOBAL RESTRICTIONS ON LABOUR MOBILITY: AN ANALYSIS USING A MULTIREGIONAL CGE MODEL   Ana María Iregui…

Do Local Governments Engage in Strategic Property-Tax Competition? Do Local Governments Engage in Strategic Property-Tax Competition?   by Jan K. Brueckner Department of Economics and Institute of Government and Public Affairs University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL…

Price Behavior in an Inflationary Environment: Evidence from Supermarket Data   Price Behavior in an Inflationary Environment: Evidence from Supermarket Data

A Model of the Nominal and Real Exchange in Colombia A Model of the Nominal and Real Exchange in Colombia   Javier Gómez*

Returns and interest rate: A nonlinear relationship in the Bogotá stock market   Returns and interest rate: A nonlinear relationship in the Bogotá stock market   Luis Eduardo Arango, Andrés González, and Carlos Esteban Posada *  Banco de la República  Summary  …

Output Gap Estimation, Estimation Uncertainty and its Effect on Policy Rules Output Gap Estimation, Estimation Uncertainty and its Effect on Policy Rules

The Impact of Transportation Infrastructure on the Colombian Economy 1905-1990: An Historical and Econometric Approach. The Impact of Transportation Infrastructure on the Colombian Economy 1905-1990: An Historical and Econometric Approach

This paper examines the role of exchange rates in determining the short-and-long-run trade balance behavior for Colombia. Conventional wisdom says that a nominal devaluation improves the trade balance. This conjecture is rooted in the Bickerdike- Robinson-Metzler (BRM) and Marshall-Lerner (ML)…

Dutch disease and banana exports in the Dutch disease and banana exports in the Colombian caribbean, 1910 - 1950      Resumen In 1994, the seven departaments of the Colombian Caribbean had a population of about 7.2 million, representing 21% of the conuntry's…

Some evidence of smooth transition Some evidence of smooth transitíons nonlinearity in Colombian inflation

Estimating credibility in Colombia's exchange rate target zone Estimating credibility in Colombia´s exchange rate target zone

Some univariate time series properties of output Some univariate time series properties of output

The study presented here is a follow-up study to Rowland and Torres (2004), who used a panel data framework together with data from 16 emerging market issuers to identify the determinants of the spread and the creditworthiness. Since many new issuers of emerging market sovereign debt have…

This study uses a panel-data framework to identify the determinants of the spread over US Treasuries of emerging market sovereign issues as well as of the creditworthiness of the issuers, where the latter is represented by the Institutional Investor’s creditworthiness index. We use a sample of…

In this paper we discuss cost and profit efficiency for a sample of financial institutions on the Colombian financial market in the period 1989-2003, using stochastic frontier efficiency analysis. During the period, the cost efficient frontier deteriorates, but profit efficient frontier is…

Colombian inflationary experience is explained using a theoretical model that stresses two elements: the effect of shocks and the type of policy designed to respond to them. The empirical investigation uses the event-study methodology and finds that the model successfully accounts for the main…

The study evaluates the virtues of asymmetric trimmed means as efficient estimators of inflation for Colombia, an economy with high and variable inflation rates. Results suggest that the proposed indicators are more efficient than alternative indexes and are particularly suited for environments…