Foreign Exchange Intervention in Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
757
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
F31, F32, F33, E37

The most recent

Olga Lucia Acosta Navarro, Andrés Felipe Chitán-Caes, Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra, María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo, Jorge Leonardo Rodríguez Arenas
Bernardo Romero-Torres, Gerson Javier Pérez-Valbuena, Andrés Felipe García-Suaza, Jaime Alfredo Bonet-Moron
Alejandro Ome, Laura Giles Álvarez, Gerson Javier Pérez-Valbuena, Cristhian Larrahondo

Banco de la República's FX intervention policy is described, with a focus on its objectives and main features. Then, based on a survey of the effectiveness of sterilized intervention in Colombia, it is argued that this tool is not useful to cope with the