IMF Staff Country Reports

Colombia: Selected Issues

May 31, 2017

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Colombia: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper assesses the monetary policy stance and broad financial conditions in Colombia. It uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy to estimate the neutral rate. A financial conditions index is also constructed to assess overall financial conditions through three different transmission channels (credit, leverage, risk) of the financial sector to the state of the economy. Results reveal that both monetary policy and broad financial conditions in Colombia remained tight in 2016. The results also show that tighter financial conditions could have had a sizable impact on GDP growth.

Subject: Central bank policy rate, Corporate income tax, Financial institutions, Financial services, Housing, Housing prices, Mortgages, National accounts, Prices, Taxes

Keywords: Central bank policy rate, Corporate income tax, CR, Europe, Global, House price, Housing, Housing prices, ISCR, Monetary policy stance, Monetary policy tightening, Monetary policy transmission mechanism, Mortgages, Reaction function, Reform, VAT, VAT revenue

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    47

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2017/139

  • Stock No:

    1COLEA2017002

  • ISBN:

    9781484302187

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685