Estimations of the natural rate of interest in Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Número: 
626
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
C13, C32, E43, E52
Palabras clave: 
Natural Rate of Interest, Unobserved Components Models, Hodrick-Prescott Filter, Semi-structural models

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