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...

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...

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...

After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the...

We study the relationship between US and Colombian sovereign debt interest rates. We also evaluate the response of the Colombian long-term bond yield and other asset prices to shocks to the US long-term Treasury rate. Two empirical exercises are performed. First, we use a moving window linear...

In this paper we study the effect of monetary policy shocks on commodity prices. While most of the literature has found that expansionary shocks have a positive effect on aggregate price indices, we study the effect on individual prices of a sample of four commodities. This set of commodity...

Teniendo en cuenta que la volatilidad de la tasa de cambio puede afectar en gran medida al sector real y financiero, se hace un estudio comparativo entre Colombia y once países seleccionados, algunos por su similitud con Colombia en algunos aspectos y otros porque sus monedas son una referencia...

La inclusión financiera se ha convertido en un tema cada vez más relevante dentro de la agenda pública del país, y con esto el diseño de iniciativas privadas y públicas para fomentarla. El presente documento está fundamentado en la tesis de que para hacer estas políticas más eficientes...