Carlos León

Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)

Researcher

Bogotá

Colombia

Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research (CentER)

Extramural Fellow

P.O. Box 90153

Tilburg, 5000 LE

Netherlands

  • Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)

  • Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research (CentER)

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1.

Operational Risk Management Using a Fuzzy Logic Inference System

Borradores de Economia No. 574
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Sep 2009
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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Operational Risk, Fuzzy Logic, Risk Management

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Efficient Portfolio Optimization in the Wealth Creation and Maximum Drawdown Space

INTEREST RATE MODELS, ASSET ALLOCATION AND QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR CENTRAL BANKS AND SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS, A. Berkelaar, J. Coche, K. Nyholm, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2010
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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Portfolio Optimization, Asset Allocation, Downside Risk, Maximum Drawdown, mean-variance Criteria, Diversification

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Portfolio Optimization and Long-Term Dependence

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Portfolio Optimization and Long-Term Dependence

Banco de la Republica Working Paper No. 602
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Oct 2010
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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Portfolio Optimization, Hurst Exponent, Long-Term Dependence, Biased Random Walk, Rescaled Range Analysis

Portfolio Optimization and Long-Term Dependence

ODEON No. 6, 2011
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Feb 2013
Carlos León and Alejandro Reveiz
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and World Bank
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portfolio optimization, Hurst exponent, long-term dependence, biased random walk, rescaled range analysis

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Financial Stability from a Network Perspective

León, C. [Ed.], Financial Stability From a Network Perspective, CentER Dissertation Series, CentER, Tilburg University [ISBN 978-90-5668430-3]
Number of pages: 252 Posted: 09 Mar 2015
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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financial stability, networks, modularity, resilience, fragility, financial markets

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Systemic Importance Index for Financial Institutions: A Principal Component Analysis Approach

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Systemic Importance Index for Financial Institutions: A Principal Component Analysis Approach

ODEON, No. 7, 2013
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Mar 2014
Carlos León and Andrés Murcia
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
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Systemic Importance, Systemic Risk, Principal Components Analysis, Too-connected-to-fail, Too-big-to-fail

Systemic Importance Index for Financial Institutions: A Principal Component Analysis Approach

Borradores de economia, Num. 741, 2012
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Carlos León and Andres Murcia
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and Ministry of Finance, Netherlands
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Systemic Importance, Systemic Risk, Principal Components Analysis, Tooconnected-to-fail, Too-big-to-fail

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Financial Stability and Interacting Networks of Financial Institutions and Market Infrastructures

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Financial Stability and Interacting Networks of Financial Institutions and Market Infrastructures

European Banking Center Discussion Paper Series No. 2014-011, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2014-057, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2014-033
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2014
Carlos León, Ron Berndsen and Luc Renneboog
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), De Nederlandsche Bank and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
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multiplex networks, interacting networks, financial stability, contagion, financial market infrastructures

Financial Stability and Interacting Networks of Financial Institutions and Market Infrastructures

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Dec 2014
Carlos León, Ron Berndsen and Luc Renneboog
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), De Nederlandsche Bank and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
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multiplex networks, interacting networks, financial stability, contagion, financial market infrastructures.

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Authority Centrality and Hub Centrality as Metrics of Systemic Importance of Financial Market Infrastructures

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Jul 2013
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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financial market infrastructures, systemic risk, authority, hub, centrality, HITS

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Montecarlo Simulation of Long‐Term Dependent Processes: A Primer

Borradores de Economia, No. 648, 2011
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Jul 2012
Carlos León and Alejandro Reveiz

Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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montecarlo simulation, fractional brownian motion, Hurst exponent, long‐term dependence, biased random walk

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Estimating Financial Institutions’ Intraday Liquidity Risk: A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach

Borradores de Economia, No. 713, 2012
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Jul 2012
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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payments systems, intraday, liquidity risk, bivariate poisson process, Monte Carlo simulation, liquidity buffer, oversight

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Identifying Central Bank Liquidity Super-Spreaders in Interbank Funds Networks

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Identifying Central Bank Liquidity Super-Spreaders in Interbank Funds Networks

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2015-052, European Banking Center Discussion Paper Series No. 2015-010
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2015
Carlos León, Clara Machado and Miguel Sarmiento
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia and Tilburg University, CentER, European Banking Center (EBC)
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interbank, liquidity, monetary policy, financial stability, networks, super-spreader, central bank

Identifying Central Bank Liquidity Super-Spreaders in Interbank Funds Networks

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Carlos León, Clara Machado and Miguel Sarmiento
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia and Tilburg University, CentER, European Banking Center (EBC)
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interbank, monetary policy, contagion, networks, super-spreader, central bank

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Investment Horizon Dependent CAPM: Adjusting Beta for Long-Term Dependence

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Carlos León, Karen Leiton and Alejandro Reveiz
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia and World Bank
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CAPM, Hurst exponent, long-term dependence, fractional Brownian motion, asset allocation, investment horizon

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Foreign Reserves’ Strategic Asset Allocation

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jul 2012
Carlos León and Daniel Vela
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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foreign reserves, Black‐Litterman, strategic asset allocation

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Too-Connected-To-Fail Institutions and Payments System’s Stability: Assessing Challenges for Financial Authorities

Borradores de Economia, No. 644, 2011
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Jul 2012
Carlos León, Clara Machado, Freddy Cepeda and Miguel Sarmiento
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia, Central Bank of Colombia and Tilburg University, CentER, European Banking Center (EBC)
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payments systems, too-connected-to-fail, too-big-to-fail, systemic risk, network topology, simulation, central bank liquidity

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Rethinking Financial Stability: Challenges Arising from Financial Networks’ Modular Scale-Free Architecture

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Feb 2014
Carlos León and Ron Berndsen
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and De Nederlandsche Bank
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financial stability, macro-prudential, financial networks, contagion, network models

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A Multi-Layer Network of the Sovereign Securities Market

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Dec 2014
Carlos León, Jhonatan Pérez and Luc Renneboog
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
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multiplex networks, financial market infrastructures, correlated multiplexity, settlement.

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Does the Use of Foreign Currency Derivatives Affect Colombian Firms’ Market Value?

Borradores de Economia, Num. 562, 2009
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2015
Carlos León, Jose E Gomez-Gonzalez and Karen Rodriguez
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Banco de la Republica and Central Bank of Colombia
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Modigliani-Miller, risk management, hedging, firm value, emerging market

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Equity Markets’ Clustering and the Global Financial Crisis

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2016-016
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Apr 2016
Carlos León, Geun-Young Kim, Constanza Martinez Ventura and Daeyup Lee
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Research Dept., Bank of Korea, Banco de la Republica and The Bank of Korea
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clustering, unsupervised learning, stock market, connectedness

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Whose Balance Sheet is This? Neural Networks for Banks’ Pattern Recognition

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2017-009
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Feb 2017
Carlos León, Jose Moreno and Jorge Cely
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia and Central Bank of Colombia
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supervised learning, machine learning, artificial neural networks, classification

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Designing an Expert Knowledge-Based Systemic Importance Index for Financial Institutions

Borradores de Economia, No. 669, 2011
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jul 2012
Carlos León and Clara Machado
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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systemic importance, systemic risk, fuzzy logic, approximate reasoning, too-connected-to-fail, too-big-to-fail

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Macro-Prudential Assessment of Colombian Financial Institutions’ Systemic Importance

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2014-040
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2014
Carlos León, Clara Machado and Andres Murcia
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia and Ministry of Finance, Netherlands
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systemic importance, systemi risk, fuzzy logic, principal component analysis, financial stability, marcro prudential

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Caracterización Y Comparación Del Mercado OTC De Valores En Colombia (Characterization and Comparison of the OTC Security Market in Colombia)

Revista de Economía Institucional Vol. 16, 31, segundo semestre de 2014
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Dec 2014
Carlos León and Jhonatan Pérez
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and Central Bank of Colombia
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mercado sobre el mostrador, OTC, deuda pública, análisis de redes, árbol de cobertura mínima; market over the counter, OTC, public debt, network analysis, minimum spanning tree

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The Evolution of World Trade from 1995 to 2014: A Network Approach

CentER Discussion Paper series No. 2017-008
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Feb 2017
Freddy Cepeda, Fredy Gamboa, Carlos León and Hernan Rincon
Central Bank of Colombia, Central Bank of Colombia, Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and Banco de la República
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world trade, network analysis, graph, minimal spanning tree

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Liquidity and Counterparty Risks Tradeoff in Money Market Networks

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2016-017
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Apr 2016
Carlos León and Miguel Sarmiento
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and Tilburg University, CentER, European Banking Center (EBC)
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liquidity risk, counterparty risk, network, centralization, money market

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Implied Probabilities of Default from Colombian Money Market Spreads: The Merton Model under Equity Market Informational Constraints

Borradores de Economia, Num. 743, 2012
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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Merton model, structural model, credit risk, probability of default, distance to default

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Extracting the Sovereigns’ CDS Market Hierarchy: A Correlation‐Filtering Approach

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Feb 2014
Carlos León, Karen Leiton Rodriguez and Jhonatan Pérez
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia and Central Bank of Colombia
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correlation, minimal spanning tree, correlation‐filtering, sovereign, credit default swap

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The Cost of Collateralized Borrowing in the Colombian Money Market: Does Connectedness Matter?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Feb 2014
Constanza Martinez Ventura and Carlos León
Banco de la Republica and Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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money market, interbank, collateral, collateralized borrowing, spatial econometrics

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Short-Term Liquidity Contagion in the Interbank Market

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2016-018
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Apr 2016
Carlos León, Constanza Martinez Ventura and Freddy Cepeda
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Banco de la Republica and Central Bank of Colombia
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financial networks, contagion, default, liquidity, DebtRank

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International Trade Networks and the Integration of Colombia into Global Trade

BIS Paper No. 100g
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Feb 2019
Andrés Murcia, Hernando Vargas and Carlos León
Banco de la República, Banco de la República and Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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international trade, network analysis, globalisation, manufacturing sector, real exchange rate, Colombia

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Ownership Networks Effects on Secured Borrowing

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2018-015
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 May 2018
Constanza Martinez Ventura, Pavel Cizek and Carlos León
Banco de la Republica, Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research and Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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funding costs, short-term liquidity, spatial panel data models

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Financial Dollarization: International Experience and Colombia Perspectives

Revista de Economía Institucional, Vol. 10, No. 18, First Semester 2008
Posted: 30 Jul 2008
Carlos León and Alejandro Reveíz
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) and Banco de la República

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financial dollarization, partial dollarization, foreign exchange risk, balance sheet effect

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Riesgo Sistémico y Estabilidad del Sistema de Pagos de Alto Valor en Colombia: Análisis bajo Topología de Redes y Simulación de Pagos

Revista Ensayos Sobre Política Económica (ESPE), Vol. 29, No. 65, p. 109-175, Junio, 2011.
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2019
Carlos León, Clara Machado, Miguel Sarmiento, Freddy Cepeda, Orlando Chipatecua and Jorge Cely
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Central Bank of Colombia, Tilburg University, CentER, European Banking Center (EBC), Central Bank of Colombia, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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sistema de pago, riesgo sistémico, topología de redes, modelos de simulación, política monetaria, prestamista de Última instancia, too-connected-to-fail

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Índice Representativo Del Mercado De Deuda Pública Interna: Idxtes

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Sep 2009
Carlos León
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)
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índice de renta fija, benchmark, portafolio de referencia, TES