This paper presents a multimarket spatial competition oligopoly model for the Colombian deposit market, in line with the New Em- pirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) approach. In this framework, banks use price and non-price strategies to compete in the market, which allows us to analyze the...

This paper examines the relationship between mortgage default decisions andrelevant observable variables under the light of a random utility model. The focusof the study is the Colombian mortgage market between 1997 and 2004 using twoseparate data sets that are matched using simulation...

Large value payment flows can be disrupted by several types of failures such as operational incidents, problems experienced by the administrator of the payments settlement system, outages in the communications networks and the inability of a participant to submit payments due to insufficient...

This paper presents a methodology to estimate the intraday liquidity that systemically important entities (SIE) need to fulfill all its obligations in a timely fashion, when a simulated failure-to-pay from its main liquidity supplier by discretionary concepts of payment occurs. Using the Bank of...

El presente estudio estima una frontera estocástica de costos con el fin de cuantificar el nivel de ineficiencia absoluta del sector bancario colombiano entre 1992 y 2002. Al mismo tiempo, se proponen distintos determinantes potenciales de dicha ineficiencia. Dado que la industria bancaria ha...

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...

El documento tiene como objetivo describir algunos de los elementos fundamentales del mercado interbancario colombiano y del manejo de liquidez por parte del Banco de la República (BR). El documento explica las diferencias entre las principales operaciones en este mercado y describe los...

En este trabajo se utiliza un modelo FAVAR (factor-augmented vector autoregression) con el fin de examinar el papel que las condiciones financieras de los bancos, reflejadas en información recopilada a nivel individual, tienen en la transmisión de la política monetaria. El tipo de modelo...