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...

Este documento analiza la eficiencia (técnica, de escala, de costos y asignativa) del sistema bancario colombiano entre 2000-2012, utilizando la metodología DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). Ésta se basa en funciones de producción individuales de las entidades que componen el sistema,...

Se presenta una revisión de los principales trabajos que analizan, teórica y empíricamente los determinantes de la inversión de las firmas en innovación. Se describen los resultados para la industria manufacturera colombiana, de un modelo Tobit, cuya estimación se lleva a cabo por medio...

Classic financial theory relies on the absolute perfection of capital markets, which results in one of the milestones of theoretical corporate finance: the firm’s value is invariant to the choice of capital structure. As an extension to the aforementioned proposition by Modigliani and Miller...

El objetivo del trabajo es investigar, de forma exploratoria, los determinantes del comportamiento de los ingresos operacionales de las empresas en Colombia. Se repasan las distintas teorías que explican el crecimiento y tamaño de las empresas y se estima un modelo de regresión por...

This paper analyzes the determinants of interest margins in the Colombian Financial System. Based on the model by Ho and Saun- ders (1981), interest margins are modelled as a function of the pure spread and bank-speci¯c institutional imperfections using quarterly data for the period...

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...

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)...

The aim of this paper is to identify a set of early warning indicators that effectively discriminate between firms that are more prone to default on their financial obligations from those that are less prone to do so. To fulfill this objective, we use the Discriminant Analysis methodology. We...