Recent research

Borradores de Economia Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Enhancing inflation nowcasting with online search data: a random forest application for Colombia

Felipe Roldán-Ferrín; Julián Andrés Parra-Polanía…

The results highlight the usefulness of combining machine learning techniques with alternative sources of information to generate timely forecasts…

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Borradores de Economia Friday, 20 June 2025

Working papers economics - Between Fundamentals and Speculation: An Analysis of the Housing Market…

Nicol Valeria Rodríguez-Rodríguez; Hernán Dario…

https://doi.org/10.32468/be.1317

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Borradores de Economia Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Borradores de Economía - Wealth Taxes and Firms’ Capital Structures: Credit Supply and Real Effects

Hernán Rincón-Castro;

https://doi.org/10.32468/be.1316

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Borradores de Economia Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Working paper - Do natural disasters and the announcement of ENSO events have an impact on market-…

Luis Fernando Melo-Velandia; Daniel Parra-Amado;…

https://doi.org/10.32468/be.1315

Natural disasters and ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation) announcements have significant but distinct effects on inflation expectations. While…

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Borradores de Economia Thursday, 22 May 2025

Balance Sheet Risk in Central Banks: The Role of Capital and Strategies for its Preservation

Lina Fernanda Torres-Gutierrez; Gonzalo Ossa-…

https://doi.org/10.32468/be.1314

The financial soundness of Central Banks (CBs) may be a necessary condition for achieving their objectives. Banco de la República (the Central…

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Documentos de Trabajo sobre Economía Regional y Urbana Tuesday, 20 May 2025

From Catastrophe to Opportunity: Housing Quality Improvements in Rural Colombia During the 2010-…

Andrés Mauricio Sánchez-Jabba;

https://doi.org/10.32468/dtseru.333

The housing program significantly reduced the incidence of housing deficits among beneficiary households. Additionally, these households showed a…

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Banco de la República conducts economic research on macroeconomics, central banking, and empirical economics issues that support the policy decisions of its Board of Directors and contribute to the understanding of the Colombian economy. The results of the investigations are disclosed through the Bank's own publications and publications in internationally recognized academic journals.