El objetivo de este documento es explicar el nuevo esquema para la fijación del precio máximo de venta al público de la gasolina automotor, establecido recientemente por el gobierno, y mediante un análisis insumo producto determinar su posible impacto sobre la inflación al consumidor. La...

El objetivo del documento es describir el proceso de formación de los precios de los combustibles en Colombia y cuantificar el impacto inflacionario de un choque a sus precios, con el fin de que sirva de marco de referencia para los pronósticos de inflación y las decisiones de política...

This paper estimates transition matrices for the ratings on …nancial insti-tutions, using an unusually informative data set. We show that the processof rating migration exhibits signi…cant non-Markovian behavior, in the sensethat the transition intensities are a¤ected by macroeconomic and...

In this paper we find empirical evidence of bank lending channel for Colombia, using a balanced panel data of about four thousand non-financial firms. We find that increases in the interest rate, proxiing for the monetary policy instrument, lead to a reduction in the proportion of bank loans,...

This paper estimates transition matrices for the ratings on financial insti-tutions, using an unusually informative data set. We show that the process of rating migration exhibits significant non-Markovian behavior, in the sense that the transition intensities are affected by macroeconomic and...

According to traditional literature, liquidity risk in individual banks can turn into a system-wide ¯nancial crisis when either interbank credit exposures or bank runs are present. This paper shows that this phenomenon can also arise when individual liquidity risk trans- forms into system-wide...

This paper examines the relationship between mortgage default decisions andrelevant observable variables under the light of a random utility model. The focusof the study is the Colombian mortgage market between 1997 and 2004 using twoseparate data sets that are matched using simulation...

This paper studies the behavior of the survival function of accruing loans during the slowdown experienced by the Colombian economy between January-2008 and March-2009 as documented by Alfonso et al. (2013). We use a dataset with information of different vintage loans between July-2007 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...

Large value payment flows can be disrupted by several types of failures such as operational incidents, problems experienced by the administrator of the payments settlement system, outages in the communications networks and the inability of a participant to submit payments due to insufficient...