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...

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...

El objetivo de este documento es realizar una estimación de la distribución de pérdidas de las carteras comercial y de microcrédito mediante una aproximación no paramétrica. Se utilizó la metodología de bootstrapping para encontrar esta distribución de pérdidas como porcentaje del...

En este documento se presenta una aplicación al sistema bancario colombiano de la metodología de prueba de estrés propuesta por Cihák (2007). El análisis de las posibles consecuencias generadas por diversos choques económicos sobre el sistema bancario se desarrolla involucrando cinco...

The financial crisis of the late 2000's highlighted the importance of strengthening risk management systems in financial markets. Consequently, an increasing interest in strategies to quantify risk under extreme scenarios has spawned. One of such techniques is CrashMetrics, a methodology for...

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...

A maximum likelihood method for estimating the power-law exponent verifies that the positive and negative tails of the Colombian stock market index (IGBC) and the Colombian peso exchange rate (TRM) approximate a scale-free distribution, whereas none of the heavy tails of a local sovereign...

En este documento se analiza la exposición al riesgo de mercado del portafolio de deuda pública de las diferentes entidades del sistema ?nanciero Colombiano desde dos perspectivas. En la primera, se emplea el enfoque tradicional en donde se calcula el valor en riesgo no condicional (a otras...

La existencia de memoria de largo plazo en las series financieras implica que los retornos de un activo hoy pueden tener incidencia sobre los retornos futuros, incluso más allá del corto plazo. En presencia de dicha memoria el horizonte de inversión elegido puede resultar en diferentes...