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...

In this document we estimate credit and GDP cycles for three Latin-American economies and study their relation in the time and frequency domains. Cycles are estimated in order to analyze their medium and short-term frequencies. We find that short-term cycles are usually more volatile than...

La virtual parálisis del mercado crediticio de los últimos años es uno de los problemas más graves de la economía colombiana, no sólo por sus consecuencias negativas sobre la dinámica del crecimiento económico, sino también porque refleja profundos desequilibrios y resquebrajamientos en...