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Under the view that the market is a weighted and directed network (Barabási, 2003), this document is a first attempt to model the Colombian money market within a spatial econometrics framework. By estimating two standard spatial econometric models, we study the cost of collateralized borrowing...
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Se estima la elasticidad de las exportaciones y de las importaciones al crédito otorgado por la banca comercial usando información cruzada a nivel de firma en Colombia. Replicando la metodología empírica de Paravisini et. al (2011), se encontró que una reducción del crédito en 10% reduce...
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The recent financial crisis has renewed the interest of economists, both at the theoretical and empirical level, in developing a better understanding of credit and its mechanisms. A rapidly growing strand of the literature views banks as facing funding restrictions that condition their borrowing...
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We use a unique data set at the individual level to estimate an empirical model explaining the probability of young individuals to become criminals as a function of the presence of adult criminals in their neighborhoods, an a complete set of control variables, including census sector fixed...
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This paper addresses the estimation of peer group effects on a fertility decision. The peer group is composed of neighbors with similar socio-demographic characteristics. In order to deal with the endogeneity problem associated to the estimation of neighborhood effects, an instrumental variables...
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This paper evaluates the effects of financial globalization on growth and macroeconomic volatility, from 1984 to 2003, for a sample of 43 countries. Particular attention is given to those effects on the member countries of the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR): Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica,...
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We explore the performance of a set of early warning indicators for a group of Latin American economies under the endogenous cycle perspective. For this group of countries, the paper confirms the results of work on industrialized countries that a combination of asset prices and credit provides...
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La existencia de memoria de largo plazo en las series financieras implica que los retornos de un activo hoy pueden tener incidencia sobre los retornos futuros, incluso más allá del corto plazo. En presencia de dicha memoria el horizonte de inversión elegido puede resultar en diferentes...
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Este documento describe la metodología desarrollada por Vapnik (1995), denominada máquinas de vectores de soporte (SVM, por sus siglas en inglés) y realiza dos aplicaciones al caso de clasificación de agentes para el otorgamiento de créditos a partir de sus características. El primer caso...
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Es una práctica muy difundida el multiplicar la desviación estándar por la raíz del tiempo para escalarla a otros plazos. Así, con base en la estimación de la desviación estándar o del VaR (Value at Risk) diario, es usual obtener la desviación estándar o el VaR para un periodo de diez...
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