 Reconstructing the recent monetary policy history of Colombia from 1990 to 2010Andres Giraldo, Martha Misas and Edgar Villa Vniversitas Económica, 2011, vol. 0, issue 0, No 8860, 38 pages Abstract: This article reconstructs the history of monetary policy of the central bank of Colombia inthe period 1990 to 2010 in which explicit ination targeting was adopted by October of 2000.To do so we developed theoretically a modi ed Taylor rule with interest rate smoothing foran open and small economy and accordingly estimate a two regime Markov switching modelwhich allows the switching dates to be endogenously determined. We nd that one regimehad explicit ination targeting (from the year 2000 up to 2010) in which the ination rate isa stationary series, given that the central bank enforced a monetary policy that satis ed theTaylor principle. This ination stabilizing regime did show up in some quarters before theyear 2000 but was not the predominant. The other regime was the more prevalent during the1990s but did not satisfy the Taylor principle allowing a unit root behavior of the inationrate. Moreover we nd that the central bank reacted aggressively during the 1990s to outputuctuations while having an accomodating behavior for this variable during explicit inationtargeting from 2000 onwards. Keywords: Taylor rule; Taylor principle; Markov Switching Model (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000416:008860 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Vniversitas Económica from Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá |
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