This document presents an enhanced and condensed version of preceding proposals for identifying systemically important financial institutions in Colombia. Three systemic importance metrics are implemented: (i) money market net exposures network hub centrality; (ii) large-value payment system...

In financial theory, the optimal allocation of assets and its relationship withprofitability has been one of the main concerns; the question has always been ifbanks should focus or diversify their assets. In our case, we would like to answerthis question focusing in diversification of the loan...

In this paper, we study the empirical relationship between credit funding sources and the financial vulnerability of the Colombian banking system. We propose a statistical model to measure and predict banking-fragility episodes associated with credit funding sources classified into retail...

En este artículo se realiza una revisión de los modelos de supervisión frecuentementeusados y las características que estos deben cumplir para alcanzar niveles óptimos deregulación y supervisión. Adicionalmente, se revisan las ventajas que surgen al involucraral banco central en dicho...

This paper analyzes the determinants of interest margins in the Colombian Financial System. Based on the model by Ho and Saunders (1981), interest margins are modelled as a function of the pure spread and bank-specific institutional imperfections using quarterly data for the period...

Using a panel of Colombian banks and quarterly data between 1996:1 and 2010:3, we study the relationship between short-run adjustments in bank capital buffers and the business cycle. We follow a partial adjustment framework and control for several variables that have been identified as important...

L'objectif de cet article est de présenter les travaux de M.C. Jensen au sein d'un ouvrage collectif consacré aux "grands auteurs en finance". La présentation est articulée en 4 points portant successivement sur les apports à la finance de marché, à la finance d'entreprise, à la théorie...

The program of French privatizations is one of the principal worldwide programs as for the volume of the equity issues. A reading of the process of privatization through the corporate governance theory resulted in working out a model making it possible to take into account, on the one hand, the...

Since the middle of the nineteen-eighties, the French system of corporate governance has undergone some major transformations. Originally, it was dominated by the State's important weight in the structures constraining managerial discretion in some of France's largest firms. But, the public...

(VF)L’objectif de cette recherche est d’examiner la relation entre la taille de l’auditeur externe et le montant des honoraires d’audit. Le choix de l’auditeur est, quant à lui, expliqué par les caractéristiques de gouvernance et de propriété de la firme. Sur la base d’un...