Credit Pro-cyclicality and Bank Balance Sheet in Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
762
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E32, G21, G32
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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 re