A general equilibrium approach to analyzing financial stability in Colombia

Se hace un resumen de los resultados principales de una agenda de investigaciones realizada por el Departamento de Estabilidad Financiera del Banco de la República cuyo núcleo consiste en la aplicación de un MEGHF para el análisis de la estabilidad del sistema financiero colombiano.Central banks have achieved positive results for inflation during the last two decades. At the same time, their concern for financial stability has increased, particularly after the late nineties, when they experienced the high costs that come with financial crisis.1 Moreover, it now seems clear that, under extreme circumstances, financial stability can pose a constraint to the normal operation of monetary policy (See Vargas et al., (32006)). For these reasons, central banks now use a set of tools to assess and promote financial stability. According to Bårdsen, Lindquist and Tsomocos (2006), these tools range from calculating indicators to designing structural macroeconomic models. The latter are understood as complex environments that allow for an analysis of interaction between the different agents at hand and the financial system (banks, depositors, regulators, etc.), as well as the effect of changes in the stance of monetary policy