This paper examines trends in banknote printing during the period 2000-2005 for a crosssection of 56 central banks. Because of the high increase in the demand for currency in recent years, central banks have implemented new strategies to increase efficiency in the production of banknotes. Some...

The most recent financial crisis unveiled that liquidity risk is far more important and intricate than regulation have conceived. The shift from bank-based to market-based financial systems and from Deferred Net Systems to liquidity-demanding Real-Time Gross Settlement of payments explains some...

During the period 2000-2004 central banks sustained a generalized reduction in their staff, which was accompanied, in most cases, with significant increases in staff costs. This could obey to an enhanced interest of central banks in focusing on their core functions. In fact, central banks have...

This paper is concerned with interest rate setting by commercial banks and how the transmission of monetary policy is re°ected in these rates. For this purpose we study the case of the Colombian banking industry for the period 1996-2004. Using microdata, the Certi¯cate of Deposit(CD) market...

We estimate a non-parametrical Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and find strong evidence rejecting the classical linear CAPM. Furthermore, we find inconsistent linear betas for a series of stocks in the Colombian stock exchange (BVC), supporting the hypothesis of a better and consistent...

El objetivo de este documento es calcular los requerimientos de capital macroprudenciales para un conjunto de bancos colombianos, de forma que el capital que se exija a cada entidad dependa, no solo de la estructura de sus activos sino también del daño potencial que puede causar a otros...

Las opciones no solo son instrumentos que ofrecen la oportunidad de cubrir o aprovechar cambios direccionales en el precio del activo subyacente, sino que permiten valorar la volatilidad de este. En mercados desarrollados es posible identificar que los agentes sobrevaloran o subvaloran la...

Con la reforma de 1993, en Colombia se dio vía libre a un sistema general de pensiones de carácter mixto, compuesto por el Régimen Solidario de Prima Media con Prestación Definida y el Régimen de Ahorro Individual con Solidaridad. El primero representa el régimen tradicional de carácter...

Este trabajo desarrolla un modelo de simulación para estimar el flujo de caja de un pensionado que tiene su cuenta individual en una Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP) colombiana. Se proyecta el flujo a partir de las sendas salariales y densidades de cotización estimadas por la...

As a natural extension to León and Vivas (2010) and León and Reveiz (2010) this paper briefly describes the Cholesky method for simulating Geometric Brownian Motion processes with long-term dependence, also referred as Fractional Geometric Brownian Motion (FBM). Results show that this method...