In this paper, I estimate the demand for housing in Bogotá, modeling electricity consumption explicitly to take into account the crossed subsidies included in Colombian utility rates. I use household level data on housing prices, observable dwelling attributes, and demographic variables to...

Using data from Medellín, second largest city in Colombia, we asses in this paper how a set of neighborhood characteristics determines wages and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to construct measures of the quality of environments where workers live. This paper focuses in...

We use hedonic price models to estimate the value households are willing to pay to avoidviolent crime in the city of Bogotá. We find that households living in the highestsocioeconomic level (stratum 6) pay up to 7.2% of their house values in order to preventaverage homicide rates from...

We use data of neighborhoods of Bogotá to assess the causal relation between their adolescent fertility and their homicide rates. We find that neighborhoods with high adolescent fertility rates, and that have low secondary enrollment and high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen...

Este documento analiza la riqueza en vivienda como un canal de trasmisión de lapolítica monetaria en Colombia, a partir de la evidencia de un modelo deEquilibrio general dinámico y estocástico calibrado para la economía colombiana.La medición del efecto riqueza para Colombia arrojó como...

En este trabajo evaluamos como la calidad del vecindario afecta resultados laborales de una muestra aleatoria de individuos en la ciudad de Medellín. El trabajo profundiza el análisis para el caso de las mujeres, cuyo estatus en el mercado laboral (participación, horas laboradas y...

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...

This paper presents two versions of a spatial competition model forthe banking sector. The first version, describes a framework that fol-lows closely Salop´s spatial competition model. This version is modi-fied in the second part by introducing the loan market and default riskprobabilities for...

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...