In this document we develop a DSGE model to analyze the effect that a consumption boom and a productivity shock have over financial stability and macroeconomic variables, in both, an economy with and without Basel III capital requirements and earnings reinvestment rule. The results suggest that...

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....

A minimum performance insurance in the Principal-Agent problem is wealth reducing to the principal. This result points to further inefficiencies in mandatory individual Pension Funds' contracts, particularly the one established in the 1993's 100th Law in Colombia.

This document presents an enhanced and condensed version of preceding proposals for identifying systemically important financial institutions in Colombia. Three systemic importance metrics are implemented: (i) money market net exposures network hub centrality; (ii) large-value payment system...

Este trabajo utiliza una medida de los flujos de capital privado de corto plazo y variables que buscan capturar los niveles de los créditos comerciales y de las transacciones internacionales y factores de expulsión y atracción para evaluar la efectividad de los controles de capital,...

This paper evaluates the effects of capital account controls adopted in the past years by the FLAR’s member countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela) on the efficiency of the banking sector, the economic growth and the volatility of output, consumption, and...

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

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

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,...

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