A NAIRU assessment: an applied case to Colombia’s labor markets

Given the discrepancy over the optimum levels of employment for Colombia, this research targets both, the national and urban, Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for the Colombian markets -- In doing so, there is a strong pertinence in estimating the constant NAIRU through raw and minimally altered data and providing the reader with a complete brief of the theory in which the model is founded -- The introduction of supply shocks is considered to attain improved estimations and a more reliable assessment of the NAIRU to those that have previously been attempted -- The backbone of the analysis is conducted through the relationship established by the Phillips curve from 2001 until 2015

Foreign direct investment, exports, gross domestic product and the labor market in Puerto Rico

In this paper, a vector autorregresive model (VAR) is applied to examine the interrelationship among foreign direct investment, exports, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Puerto Rico, taking into account a time period that includes the fiscal years from 1980 to 2010 -- Four cointegrating vectors were found in the system which indicates that there is a long run relationship between the variables -- The findings suggest that consecutive increases in foreign direct investment inflows could significantly reduce the unemployment rate and increase interest in joining the labor force in Puerto Rico -- The same result also applies to increases in export levels -- The variations in Gross Domestic Product are mainly explained in the long run by the unemployment rate

Modelación de la prima de riesgo que asumen los agentes en transacciones a plazo a través de los factores que influyen y explican el comportamiento de la tasa de cambio de la moneda colombiana con respecto a la de Estados Unidos

En este trabajo se pretende establecer que factores fundamentales influyen en el movimiento de la tasa de cambio COP/USD en un periodo intra-diario de forma horaria, para así poder establecer un modelo que ayude a estimar la prima de riesgo de la tasa de cambio colombiana -- Basados en Pantoja (2012)1, se pretende la aplicación de un modelo VAR (vectores autorregresivos) para estimar la prima de riesgo de la tasa de cambio, donde se encontró que este modelo no es el modelo más adecuado para explicar la serie de datos utilizada, por lo que se propone un modelo GARCH para modelar la serie -- Se encontró que hay factores fundamentales que explican la prima, como lo son el WTI, el S&P500 y la tasa de cambio EUR/USD

Sobrevivientes de Armero, entre la nostalgia y el desempleo : una lágrima de cinco años 3

Fondo Margaritainés Restrepo