Buyback of Colombian Sovereign Debt

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
331
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E31
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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Juan Esteban Carranza-Romero, Alejandra González-Ramírez, Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas

At a request from the Ministry of Finance, Banco de la República last year carried out an investigation into the feasibility to use parts of the foreign reserves to buy back some of Colombia’s outstanding sovereign U.S.-dollar debt. This project resulted