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...

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...

La innovación tecnológica es reconocida como uno de los factores determinantes del crecimiento económico. La innovación en variedades, en calidad y la disminución de costos resultante de la misma son variables que explican el crecimiento económico de acuerdo con modelos seminales como los...

Defining whether a financial institution is systemically important (or not) is challenging due to (i) the inevitability of combining complex importance criteria such as institutions´ size, connectedness and substitutability; (ii) the ambiguity of what an appropriate threshold for those criteria...

En este trabajo se analizan algunos aspectos de la regulación relacionada con el manejo del riesgo de mercado establecida por la Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, donde se propone el valor en riesgo (VaR) como la medida para cuantificar este tipo de riesgo. No obstante, esta regulación...

Financial system´s health is a signal of economic growth therefore it is a key indicator toinvestors. As a consequence, one of the main purposes of policymakers is to keep itsstability as well as protect it from foreign activity. Both financial and economic activity ingeneral are susceptible of...

Este documento estima los efectos de choques de origen financiero y real sobre un conjunto de variables de la economía colombiana. Para ello, se utiliza un modelo FAVAR que incorpora dos factores no observados, los cuales recogen la dinámica de 111 variables de la economía colombiana entre el...

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...

The paper examines the bidders behaviour in the Colombian government bond auctions during 2007 for the period in which there is no uncertainty in the supply. Three main findings are presented. First, in contrast with other treasury auctions (Castellanos [2]), the market clearing price in the...