This paper presents a DSGE model with banks that face moral hazard in management. Banks receive demand deposits and fund investment projects. Banks are subject to potential withdrawals by depositors which may force them into early liquidation of their investments. The likelihood of this...

We argue that international lenders take into account that taxes (or subsidies) affect borrowers’ available income for debt repayments. Using an endowment-economy model, we show that by incorporating this fact into the analysis of ?financial crises from the pecuniary externality perspective,...

En este documento se analiza el mecanismo de formación de las expectativas de inflación en Colombia usando diferentes medidas de esta variable a uno y dos años. Los resultados indican que las expectativas se forman de manera adaptativa y racional. Hay evidencia que soporta la hipótesis de...

We identify interbank (i.e. non-collateralized) loans from the Colombian large-value payment system by implementing Furfine’s method. After identifying interbank loans from transactional data we obtain the interbank rates and claims without relying on financial institutions’ reported data....

The sudden collapse of oil prices poses a challenge to inflation targeting central banks in oil exporting economies. This paper illustrates that challenge and conducts a quantitative assessment of the impact of permanent changes in oil prices in a small and open economy, in which oil represents...

Teniendo en cuenta los cambios recientes en la intermediación financiera y los avances en regulación, este artículo estudia las condiciones de riesgo de los bancos y sus características tradicionales para analizar el funcionamiento del canal de préstamos. La evidencia indica que los bancos...

The informal sector is an extensive phenomenon in developing countries. While some of its implications have drawn considerable attention in the literature, one relatively unexplored aspect has to do with the saving patterns of workers and firms and how these might influence aggregate savings and...

En este documento se analiza la transmisión de los cambios en la tasa de interés de referencia del Banco de la República hacia las tasas de interés activas del sistema financiero. Para tal efecto se utilizan análisis descriptivo, modelos de regresión, modelos de corte transversal y de...

The most recent episode of market turmoil exposed the limitations resulting from the traditional focus on too-big-to-fail institutions within an increasingly systemic-crisis-prone financial system, and encouraged the appearance of the too-connected-to-fail (TCTF) concept. The TCTF concept...

Despite foreign reserves´ strategic asset allocation relies mainly on Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), the unique characteristics of central banks obliges them to articulate and reconcile typical optimization procedures with reserves´ management objectives such as providing confidence regarding...