This paper studies the determinants of the probability of participating in a process of merging or acquisition for financial institutions in Colombia. We use survival analysis techniques and competing risks models to estimate the probability of participating in such processes as an acquiring or...

Using transactions-level customs data from Colombia, we study firm-specific exporting patterns over the period 1996-2005. Our data allow us to track firms’ entry and exit into and out of individual destination markets, as well their revenues from selling there. Our results support findings...

En este documento se analiza la reciente disminución de las exportaciones a Venezuela y su impacto en el panorama exportador y las firmas colombianas. Al mismo tiempo se plantean algunas reflexiones sobre la sustitución del mercado venezolano. Para esto se utilizó la base de comercio exterior...

En este documento analizamos el comportamiento reciente de las exportaciones a Venezuela, y a nivel de firma, la dependencia de los ingresos frente a las ventas realizadas al vecino país en 2006. Para esto se utilizó la base de comercio exterior del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de...

Las exportaciones colombianas hacia Venezuela han venido creciendo en forma notoria en el valor, y en menor grado en el volumen. En este documento se analiza el comportamiento de los precios implícitos (precios) de las exportaciones colombianas hacia Venezuela, principalmente; y comparada su...

The effects of capital destruction are endogenized in a neoclassical growth model where the economy can optimally allocate part of its labor force to defend capital from being destroyed. The purpose is to explain the optimal allocation of the labor force between productive and deterrence...

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...

We study the existence of a monetary policy transmission mechanism through banks in Colombia, using monthly banks’ balance sheet data for the period 1996:4 – 2012:12. We obtain results which are consistent with the basic postulates of the bank lending channel (and the risk-taking channel)...