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...

En este trabajo se estudian los determinantes de la oferta y demanda de la cartera comercial en Colombia, tanto a nivel macroeconómico como usando información por empresas, por medio de un modelo de desequilibrio que permite analizar posibles restricciones de crédito. Para esto se usa...

Se estima la elasticidad de las exportaciones y de las importaciones al crédito otorgado por la banca comercial usando información cruzada a nivel de firma en Colombia. Replicando la metodología empírica de Paravisini et. al (2011), se encontró que una reducción del crédito en 10% reduce...

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...

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...

We use a unique data set at the individual level to estimate an empirical model explaining the probability of young individuals to become criminals as a function of the presence of adult criminals in their neighborhoods, an a complete set of control variables, including census sector fixed...

We explore the performance of a set of early warning indicators for a group of Latin American economies under the endogenous cycle perspective. For this group of countries, the paper confirms the results of work on industrialized countries that a combination of asset prices and credit provides...

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,...