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Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia, BanRep) informs that in February 2023 it did not make outright sales or purchases of TES B in the market. At the end of February 2023, the outstanding balance of TES held by BanRep was COP 36,858.0 billion (value at market prices).BanRep’s…
Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia, BanRep) informs that in August 2024 it made outright purchases of TES B in the market for COP 2,931.2 billion (value at market prices). These purchases were made in response to the difference between the projections of supply and demand of the…
Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia, BanRep) hereby informs that in July 2022 it made outright purchases of TES B in the market for $1,160.5 b (value at market prices). These purchases were made in response to the difference between the latest projections of supply and demand of the…
This paper provides evidence of long run purchasing power parity by performing a recently developed method to test for unit roots in the presence of structural breaks. Data consist of real exchange rate series for 20 countries including developed and developing economies. Structural breaks are…
 We use data from Bogotá and Medellín to describe key quality of life indicators of each city and illustrate their spatial segregation at the census sector level and present evidence that the main two Colombian cities are highly spatially segregated according to their education levels and…
How far is the US social insurance system from an e±cient system? We answer this question within a model where agents receive idiosyncratic, labor-productivity shocks that are privately observed. When social security and income taxation comprise the social insurance system, the maximum possible e±…
This document provides an update on the main risks faced by the local financial system. It assesses the quarterly evolution of vulnerabilities identified in the Financial Stability Report for the first half of 2024: i) sudden changes in global financial conditions; ii) materialization of credit…
During her visit to Colombia, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, in her capacity as United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA), held a meeting with Mr. Leonardo Villar, Governor of Banco de la República and its technical teams, to discuss the…
1. Questions related to coin exchangeWhere can the public acquire the Guarniel / “Carriel Antioqueño” commemorative coin?The commemorative coin will be available to the public as of Friday, 15 November 2024, and may be purchased at the twenty-nine (29) branches of Banco de la República (the Central…
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Questions related to the coin exchange Where can the public purchase the commemorative coin of the Battle of Lake Maracaibo and the Declaration of 24 July as the Colombian Navy Day? The commemorative coin of the Battle of Lake Maracaibo and the Declaration of 24 July as the Colombian Navy Day…
On February 14, 1903, R. G. Fay, a gunpowder expert from the United States sailed for Cartagena, Colombia aboard the Allegheny, a steamer that belonged to Hamburg Amerika Linie. Fay described the ship as a "fruit boat". All along his trip to South America and back, he wrote a journal. He also took…
R&D intensity for small firms is high and persistent over time. At the same time, small firms are often financially constrained. This paper proposes a theoretical model that explains the coexistence of these two stylized facts. It is shown that self-financed R&D investment can distort the…
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Economic recovery has consistently outperformed the technical staff’s expectations following a steep decline in activity in the second quarter of 2020. At the same time, total and core inflation rates have fallen and remain at low levels, suggesting that a significant element of the reactivation of…
With the Payment Systems Report, every year, the Central Bank of Colombia provides a thorough overview of the local financial market infrastructure.
  Bogotá   (Bogotá D.C., Cundinamarca)
Abstract Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) models suggest many variables as potential drivers of equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER). This gives rise to model uncertainty issues, as ERER depends and varies, often drastically, on a particular set of chosen variables. We address this…
Por Ricardo Ffrench-Davis y Leonardo Villar”, en Ricardo Ffrench Davis (ed.), Seeking Growth under Financial Volatility, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2006.