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Bankruptcy is a threat to financial stability, if a company fails to meet its financial obligations. Obviously, the risk to financial stability increases with the number of liquidated corporations and the size of the debt each has acquired. Moreover, in a scenario characterized by a significant…
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Elements of both supply and demand interact during a financial crisis, which explains the precarious growth in credit. Nonetheless, it is important that demand-side incentives be generated ex post. These also help to reactivate loans by fueling the supply of credit. The latter usually remains…
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One of the biggest threats to any company is that of becoming insolvent. A threat of this kind to corporate financial stability is of relevance not only to investors and employees but also to financial-sector lenders, auditors and regulators, among others. Hence the importance of a model that helps…
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Entities and regulators alike are becoming more interested in measuring and the market risk (MR) associated with the trading book1 , given the growing share of investments comprising the financial system’s assets. The Office of the Superintendencia Bancaria (Banking Superintendency)2 in Colombia…
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Financial institutions rate loans as an expression of the risk they believe the client poses. With the data from those ratings, they can evaluate the current quality of their balance sheet and calculate the loan-loss provisions required for their loan portfolio. A loan rating also is an instrument…
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This paper is an attempt at constructing a simple and eff
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Mandatory pension fund (MPF) affiliates in Colombia do not have a great deal of information to gauge the financial performance of pension fund managers (PFM). At present, each PFM publishes a monthly report on average profitability for the preceding 36 months (tri-annual yield). However, this…
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The relationship between capital ows and domestic credit emerges from dierent channels which are usually not directly identi ed. In this paper, a principal-agent approach is proposed in order to disentangle the channels through which shocks on capital debt ows can aect credit-related variables…
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The importance of the banking sector as a key player in interest rate passthrough has been recognized recently in literature concerning monetary policy transmission mechanisms. The interest rate channel, which operates when banks pass on changes in the monetary policy rate to interest rates for the…
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The importance of properly monitoring and regulating liquidity risk is associated with systemic risk and with stability of the financial system. If institutions do not measure liquidity risk adequately and if it is not well regulated, financial institutions could see their positions affected by a…
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The financial crisis of the late 2000's underscored the importance of identifying systemically significant institutions and developing mechanisms for the latter to internalize the externalities they create on the economy should they fail. Using monthly data for the period comprised between…
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As Freixas and Rochet (1997) mention, in perfect competition the optimal choice for banks is determined by the point where intermediation margins are equal to operating costs. In this scenario, market equilibrium is not affected by a bank’s actions. In contrast, when a bank has market power, it can…
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To complement a number of studies done in Colombia, based largely on figures from institutional balance sheets, Banco de la Republica has conducted three surveys to date on the credit situation in Colombia. The aim is to collect qualitative information that can be used to determine how financial…
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Annually from 1994-1997
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1990-2002
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Annually from 1994-1997
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A major breakthrough in the area of macroeconomics was the unifi cation of business cycle and growth theories by Kydland and Prescott (1982); accordingly, exogenous stochastic technological innovations —i. e. fl uctuations in total factor productivity (TFP) or supply shocks— would explain most…
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The Investment Budget includes the estimate of the resources necessary for the acquisition and replacement of movable and immovable property, cultural property, and software required for the performance of the functions assigned to the Bank. The operating budget is divided into three main…
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