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Macroeconomic Summary Recent data on economic activity, inflation and the job market suggest their trends have been in line with the technical staff's assessment of the state of the economy and how it is expected to evolve, characterized by a slump in demand and the persistence of ample surplus…
Macroeconomic summary The Colombian economy sustained numerous shocks in the second quarter, primarily related to costs and supply. The majority of these shocks were unanticipated or proved more persistent than expected, interrupting the recovery in economic activity observed at the beginning of…
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This paper studies the performance, in terms of volatility and welfare, of different monetary policy rules in an economy with two market frictions. We consider a financial friction that highlights the credit channel as the monetary transmission mechanism and a labor friction, that considerably…
M1 (excluding Central National Government entities) M3 (excluding Central National Government entities) Net domestic credit to the public sector 
M1 (excluding Central National Government entities) M3 (excluding Central National Government entities) Net domestic credit to the public sector  Gross domestic credit to the private sector  Net foreign assets
What are financial infrastructures?Financial infrastructure or financial market infrastructures (FMI) enable the clearing, settlement, and recording of financial transactions (payments, securities, derivatives, and other financial assets) between participating entities.They include:
What does it mean that the financial system faces vulnerabilities and risks? Financial activity consists of the intermediation of resources between different individuals or sectors of the economy. In this way, the financial system directs economic resources from those individuals who have…
A core goal of regulators and financial authorities is to understand how market prices convey information on the financial health of its participants. From this viewpoint we build an Early-Warning Indicators System (EWIS) that allows for identifying those financial institutions perceived as risky…
Base Prices for the Settlement of Taxes or Royalties on the Exploitation of Gold, Silver and Platinum
This paper examines the long-term trends observed in the standard of living of the Colombian population during the past one hundred years, with special attention on health. We construct a historical index of human development for Colombia (HIHDC) for the 19th and 20th centuries by gender. We find…
This paper presents a multimarket spatial competition oligopoly model for the Colombian deposit market, in line with the New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) approach. In this framework, banks use price and non-price strategies to compete in the market, which allows us to analyze the…
The opinions contained in this document are the sole responsibility of the author and do not commit Banco de la República or its Board of Directors.  
  Las opiniones contenidas en el presente documento son responsabilidad exclusiva del autor y no comprometen al Banco de la República ni a su Junta Directiva.    
Profundizar en los artistas, las técnicas y/o las influencias internas o externas en su creación ayudarían a entender la historia del arte de la ciudad. Esto podría contribuir a desarrollar la oferta cultural que la ciudad necesita para que los museos, y la actividad…
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Saving-investment flows for the first quarter of 20241. By institutional sectorAccording to the Financial Accounts calculated by Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia), in the first quarter of 2024, the current account deficit of the Colombian economy reached 1.4% of quarterly GDP…
Saving-investment flows for the second quarter of 20241. By institutional sectorAccording to the financial accounts calculated by Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia, Banrep), in the second quarter of 2024, the current account deficit of the Colombian economy reached 1.0% of…
Saving-investment flows for the third quarter of 20241. By institutional sectorAccording to the Financial Accounts calculated by Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia, Banrep), in the third quarter of 2024, the current account deficit of the Colombian economy reached 0.9% of quarterly…
The National Interbank Electronic Clearing System (CENIT in Spanish) is an Automated Clearing House (ACH) managed by Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia), which provides the following services:
The National Congress of Economics Students, annually organized by the National Federation of Students of Economics (Fenadeco in Spanish), has more than thirty years of history. Its goal is to strengthen and diversify academic spaces that contribute to comprehensive training of future economists of…
Los datos muestran una tendencia creciente no solo en la frecuencia de eventos climáticos extremos, sino también en los costos directos medidos como afectaciones a la población.