Recent Behavior of Output, Unemployment, Wages and Prices in Colombia: What went wrong?

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
249
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E24, C40
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

At the end of the last decade, the real activity in Colombia underwent the sharpest recession of the last fifty years. We postulate a non-triangular structural VAR model (Amisano and Giannini, 1997) to describe the dynamics of output, prices, unemployment