El objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar una visión de conjunto del mercado hipotecario en Colombia y su relación con los principales determinantes que se encuentran a nivel internacional. Nuestras recomendaciones apuntan a examinar la cadena productiva y obtener un mejor entendimiento de...

A minimum performance insurance in the Principal-Agent problem is wealth reducing to the principal. This result points to further inefficiencies in mandatory individual Pension Funds' contracts, particularly the one established in the 1993's 100th Law in Colombia.

Este documento analiza la riqueza en vivienda como un canal de trasmisión de la política monetaria en Colombia, a partir de la evidencia de un modelo de Equilibrio general dinámico y estocástico calibrado para la economía colombiana. La medición del efecto riqueza para Colombia arrojó...

We use data of neighborhoods of Bogotá to assess the causal relation between their adolescent fertility and their homicide rates. We find that neighborhoods with high adolescent fertility rates, and that have low secondary enrollment and high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen...

En este trabajo se presenta un modelo SVAR, donde se imponen restricciones de largo plazo para identificar choques de demanda y oferta en el mercado hipotecario. Con el modelo se analiza si el comportamiento del precio real de la vivienda en Colombia diverge de la tendencia de sus fundamentales,...

This paper analyzes the determinants of interest margins in the Colombian Financial System. Based on the model by Ho and Saun- ders (1981), interest margins are modelled as a function of the pure spread and bank-speci¯c institutional imperfections using quarterly data for the period...

Este documento analiza la eficiencia (técnica, de escala, de costos y asignativa) del sistema bancario colombiano entre 2000-2012, utilizando la metodología DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). Ésta se basa en funciones de producción individuales de las entidades que componen el sistema,...

Under the view that the market is a weighted and directed network (Barabási, 2003), this document is a first attempt to model the Colombian money market within a spatial econometrics framework. By estimating two standard spatial econometric models, we study the cost of collateralized borrowing...

The recent financial crisis has renewed the interest of economists, both at the theoretical and empirical level, in developing a better understanding of credit and its mechanisms. A rapidly growing strand of the literature views banks as facing funding restrictions that condition their borrowing...

We study the existence of a monetary policy transmission mechanism through banks in Colombia, using monthly banks’ balance sheet data for the period 1996:4 – 2012:12. We obtain results which are consistent with the basic postulates of the bank lending channel (and the risk-taking channel)...