This paper presents data on 76 partial credit guarantee schemes across 46 developed and developing countries. Based on theory, the authors discuss different organizational features of credit guarantee schemes and their variation across countries. They focus on the respective role of government...

This paper presents data on 76 partial credit guarantee schemes across 46 developed and developing countries. Based on theory, we discuss different organizational features of credit guarantee schemes and their variation across countries. We focus on the respective role of government and private...

Este artículo se pregunta si es oportuno modificar la tasa de interés técnica utilizada para descontar el pasivo pensional del nivel actual de 4% anual, dada, por un lado, la trayectoria reciente que ha tenido la tasa de interés real y, por otro, las circunstancias diferentes que vive la...

In this paper we seek to assess the ability of banks to withstand the e?ects of an increase in credit risk as a result of changes in the macroeconomic environment. To do so we estimate a credit risk model for each loan type as a function of four macroeconomic variables commonly used in the...

En este documento se analiza la exposición al riesgo de mercado del portafolio de deuda pública de las diferentes entidades del sistema ?nanciero Colombiano desde dos perspectivas. En la primera, se emplea el enfoque tradicional en donde se calcula el valor en riesgo no condicional (a otras...

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the changes in the calculation of minimum regulatory capital requirements for credit risk that have been drafted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel II). Even though the revised credit capital rules represent a dramatic...

Con la reforma de 1993, en Colombia se dio vía libre a un sistema general de pensiones de carácter mixto, compuesto por el Régimen Solidario de Prima Media con Prestación Definida y el Régimen de Ahorro Individual con Solidaridad. El primero representa el régimen tradicional de carácter...

This paper develops and tests a proposed methodology that puts forward a new integrated method for evaluating the performance of development finance institutions. This methodology applies assessment criteria that take into account both the social objective that the development finance...

En este documento se presenta un análisis de la vulnerabilidad del sistema financiero Colombiano ante fluctuaciones en los ingresos de las empresas exportadoras a los dos principales socios comerciales, Estados Unidos y Venezuela, para el periodo comprendido entre 2004 y 2007. El análisis...

The financial crisis of the late 2000's highlighted the importance of strengthening risk management systems in financial markets. Consequently, an increasing interest in strategies to quantify risk under extreme scenarios has spawned. One of such techniques is CrashMetrics, a methodology for...