The paper examines the bidders behaviour in the Colombian government bond auctions during 2007 for the period in which there is no uncertainty in the supply. Three main findings are presented. First, in contrast with other treasury auctions (Castellanos [2]), the market clearing price in the...

Asset prices have recently become a common topic in economic debate. Nevertheless, much time has been spent in determining if they effectively exhibit a bubble component, and not in examining whether asset prices affectively contain relevant information concerning future market developments....

Este documento evalúa la regulación vigente relacionada con la inversión de losrecursos de los Fondos de Pensiones Obligatorios (FPO), para lo cual se analiza el perfilde eficiencia del sistema dadas sus actuales restricciones. De acuerdo con los resultadosobtenidos, se observa que el marco...

Este documento evalúa la regulación vigente relacionada con la administración de losportafolios de los Fondos de Pensiones Obligatorios (FPO), para esto revisa la literaturarelacionada con la eficiencia del Sistema dadas sus actuales restricciones. Se concluyeque el marco regulatorio de las...

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,...

En este artículo se analizan los principales determinantes de la rentabilidad de los bancoscomerciales en Colombia durante el período comprendido entre enero de 2000 y mayo de 2007. Seestiman los efectos de los movimientos en la tasa de cambio peso dólar sobre dicha rentabilidad,tanto en un...

In this paper we investigate the impact of rapid credit growth on ex ante credit risk. We present micro-econometric evidence of the positive relationship between rapid credit growth and deterioration in lending portfolios: Loans granted during boom periods have higher probability of default than...

Asset prices have recently become a common topic in economic debate. Nevertheless,much time has been spent in determining if they e®ectively exhibit a bubble component,and not in examining whether asset prices a®ectively contain relevant information concern-ing future market developments. This...

El presente trabajo da cuenta de las principales lecciones que se han recogido en materia de política monetaria y financiera sobre la crisis actual, y traza un paralelo con la crisis colombiana de los noventa (guardadas las proporciones) y con las acciones que de ella se derivaron. Además...

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...