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This paper examines the non-reversal of fortune thesis proposed by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) in the light of the Colombian experience over the last 500 years. Using a total of 14 national population censuses and the record of tributary Indians in 1559, it is found that the population…

The "nonfinancial public sector" includes the central national government, social security institutions, the electric sector, national public establishments, regional and local public sector, municipal and state companies, among others. The data contains information on income, expenses, interest,…

Even though international authorities encourage open and wide access to large value payment systems, the optimal level of access, or tiering, is still an open question. In the case of real-time gross settlement systems (RTGS), the level of access, or tiering, may be limited by the tradeoff between…

We estimate a non-parametrical Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and find strong evidence rejecting the classical linear CAPM. Furthermore, we find inconsistent linear betas for a series of stocks in the Colombian stock exchange (BVC), supporting the hypothesis of a better and consistent fitting…

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Presentation by the Governor of the Banco de la República of Colombia, José Darío Uribe at the XCV Meeting of Governors of Central Banks of CEMLA for the Session: “Normalization of Monetary Policy in Industrialized Economies and the Possible Effects on Latin America and the Caribbean”

 

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Abstract   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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Using Add Health, a very comprehensive longitudinal data set of teenagers and young adults in the United States, we estimate a structural dynamic model of the determinants of obesity. In addition to including many of the well-recognized endogenous factors mentioned in the literature as obesity…

Obesity is widely accepted as one of the main causes of premature death, and the causal relationship between obesity and several of the most deadly chronic diseases is a consensus in the medical and public health literature. Obesity in the United States has recently been recognized as a public…

  Monetary policy strategies have been implemented within a flexible exchange rate scheme that is governed by intervention rules with the following objectives:   

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