Whilst emphasis has been given to short-term dependence of financial returns, long term dependence remains overlooked. Despite financial literature provides evidence of long-term's memory existence, serial-independence assumption prevails. This document's long-term dependence assessment relies...

Informational constraints may turn the Merton Model for corporate credit risk impractical. Applying this framework to the Colombian financial sector is limited to four stock-market-listed firms; more than a hundred banking and non-banking firms are not listed.Within the same framework, firms'...

As a result of the most recent global financial crisis literature has embraced size, connectedness and substitutability as key indicators for financial institutions' systemic importance. Despite the intuitiveness of these concepts, identifying systemic important institutions remain a non-trivial...