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...

According to traditional literature, liquidity risk in individual banks can turn into a system-wide ¯nancial crisis when either interbank credit exposures or bank runs are present. This paper shows that this phenomenon can also arise when individual liquidity risk trans- forms into system-wide...

The most recent episode of market turmoil exposed the limitations resulting from the traditional focus on too-big-to-fail institutions within an increasingly systemic-crisis-prone financial system, and encouraged the appearance of the too-connected-to-fail (TCTF) concept. The TCTF concept...

This paper estimates transition matrices for the ratings on …nancial insti-tutions, using an unusually informative data set. We show that the processof rating migration exhibits signi…cant non-Markovian behavior, in the sensethat the transition intensities are a¤ected by macroeconomic and...

This paper estimates transition matrices for the ratings on financial insti-tutions, using an unusually informative data set. We show that the process of rating migration exhibits significant non-Markovian behavior, in the sense that the transition intensities are affected by macroeconomic and...

En este documento se caracteriza el endeudamiento del sector corporativo privado con el sistemafinanciero durante el período 1998-2005, y se hallan los determinantes de la probabilidadde que una empresa colombiana incumpla con el pago las obligaciones que ha contraído coneste. A trav´es de un...

Financial institutions use credit ratings to express their risk perception abouttheir clients. Credit ratings feed their internal credit scoring models, allowingthem to evaluate the current state of the quality of their balances and to calcu-late the reserves required to provision their loan...

The authors propose a short run model for the monetary transmission mechanism in which the output gap is modelled as an unobserved variable. By estimating this model using maximum likelihood on a Kalman Filter, the authors find an estimate of the unobserved output gap as well as its estimation...

Network analysis has been applied to identify systemically important financial institutions after the 2008 financial crisis. Such applications have stressed the importance of centrality within the too-connected-to-fail concept. Yet, despite their well-known importance for financial stability,...

As a result of the most recent global financial crisis literature has embraced size, connectedness and substitutability as key indicators for financial institutions´ systemic importance. Despite the intuitiveness of these concepts, identifying systemic important institutions remain a...