Inflation Targeting in Colombia, 2002–12

Marc Hofstetter, Franz Hamann and Miguel Urrutia ()

Economía Journal, 2014, vol. Volume 15 Number 1, issue Fall 2014, 1-37

Abstract: After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the short-term interest rate as the main instrument. We examine the experience of the Colombian Central Bank over the last decade, a period of consolidation and innovation of its IT strategy. We study the increasing number of instruments used by the CB, including systematic foreign exchange interventions, announcements, and, sporadically, macro-prudential policies, capital controls, and changes in reserve requirements, among others. The study also examines some political economy dimensions that help explain the behavior of the CB during this period. To guide the discussion, we estimate a small-scale open-economy-policy-model.

Keywords: Inflation Targeting; Monetary Policy; Exchange Rate; Taylor Rule; Colombia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 E32 E42 E43 E52 E58 E61 F31 F33 F42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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