En este documento se analiza la relación existente entre el riesgo del sector real y del sistema financiero. Para esto, se estima un modelo FAVAR en el cual se incluyen un conjunto de variables que reflejan la evolución de la dinámica común de las series de los diferentes sectores de la...

On 25 January of 2012, the Banque de France hosted Professor Robert F. Engle, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2003, to give a lecture. Professor Engle presented his measurement on systemic risk and its implementation in the euro area.

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'...

Network analysis has been applied to identify systemically important financial institutions after the 2008 financial crisis. Such applications have stressed the importance of centrality within the too-connected-to-fail concept. Yet, despite their well-known importance for financial stability,...

Este documento expone cómo se conforma y articula el mercado OTC de valores en el caso colombiano. Así mismo, en el marco del mercado de deuda pública local, con base en el análisis de redes complejas, este documento describe, caracteriza y compara al mercado OTC con los organizados (SEN y...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie und die russische Invasion in der Ukraine haben, zusammen mit dem Bericht des Weltklimarats im April 2022, die Welt verändert. Um die globalen Probleme des 21. Jahr-hunderts lösen zu können, müssen wir einen frischen Blick auf die Welt werfen. Aus der Vogelperspektive...

Gerade die moderne Finanztheorie zeigt, dass effiziente Finanzinstitutionen oft Funktionen wahrnehmen, die durch Märkte nicht bereitgestellt werden können. Die Funktionen ergeben sich aufgrund von unvollständigen Märkten, Externalitäten und Informationsasymmetrien. Entscheidungsträger...

This paper examines the influence of CEO duality on bank tax avoidance and whether the board-level risk committee moderates the relationship. Moreover, we examine whether two risk committees’ characteristics (size and meeting frequency) moderate the CEO duality-bank tax avoidance relationship....

Much of the economic analysis of banking crises focuses on the interplay between concentration and stability. A common theory is that concentration is associated with greater stability, whereas competition is associated with instability. In this view, there is a trade-off between, on the one...

Studies of intermediated arbitrage argue that bank balance sheets are an important consideration, yet little evidence exists on banks' positioning in this context. Using confidential supervisory data (covering $25 trillion in daily notional exposures) we examine banks' positions in connection...