The literature typically finds that the development of financial markets has decreased the ability of central banks to affect the real economy. This paper shows that this negative relationship does not hold between the balance sheet channel of monetary transmission and bank globalization-one...

This article provides an overview of international experiences with the use of unconventional central bank instruments. The application of unconventional instruments may be justified by the existence of financial market friction, turmoil, failure or constraint, when instruments that change the...

Recently, several studies have argued about the interactions of the real economy and financial system, as well as the importance of financial cycles in business cycle fluctuations. To date, there exists near consensus among central bankers, economists, and other scholars that the financial cycle...

Luego de adelantar un examen de mercados asimétricos e información, el trabajo seorienta a una serie de consideraciones acerca de los flujos internacionales de capitalesentre los países, haciendo énfasis en los efectos sobre las economías más vulnerablesdel mundo. La intención central...

The document estimates the risk embraced by Colombian commercial banks, and establishes a measurement of excessive risk-taking that is consistent with such estimation. The construction of the excessive-risk measurement follows the basic efficient-portfolio framework, in which the variance of an...

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...

In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology to determine the existence of credit booms, which is a complex and crucial issue for policymakers. In particular, we exploit the Mendoza and Terrones (2008)´s idea that macroeconomic aggregates other than the credit growth rate contain...

Resumen: Este estudio tiene como finalidad evaluar la efectividad que variables tales como el tamaño de la firma y la relación del valor en libros a valor de mercado-presentes en el modelo de Fama y French-tienen para capturar el retorno esperado promedio de los activos, en comparación con...

Este documento describe la política monetaria aplicada en Colombia durante el período 1990-2007 antes de la crisis financiera mundial del presente siglo y analiza la incidencia que tuvo el resultado de dicha política sobre la tasa de paridad de intereses. Para probar la hipótesis de paridad...

The downturn in the world economy following the global banking crisis has left the Chinese economy relatively unscathed. This paper develops a model of the Chinese economy using a DSGE framework with a banking sector to shed light on this episode. It differs from other applications in the use of...