Interest Rate Setting and the Colombian Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
352
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C33, E43, E52, E58
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
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