 Banks in Colombia: How Homogeneous Are They?Revista de Economía del Rosario, 2020, vol. 23, issue 2, No 18219, 32 pages Abstract: In complex systems, homogeneity has been documented as a source of fragility. Likewise, in the financial sector, it has been documented as a contributing factor for systemic risk. We assess homogeneity in the Colombian case by measuring how similar banks are regarding the structure of their overall financial statements, and their lending, investment, and funding portfolios. Distances among banks and an agglomerative clustering method yield the hierarchical structure of the banking system, which exhibits how banks are related to each other based on their financial structure. The Colombian banking sector displays homogeneous features, especially among the largest banks. Also, it seems size is a crucial determinant in the banking sector’s hierarchical structure. Results are robust to a Principal Component Analysis feature selection procedure that reduces the dimensionality of the dataset. Results enable studying to what extent the banking sector is homogeneous, to identify banking firms that have a(n) (un)common financial structure, and, thus, to better examine systemic risk. Keywords: Clustering; banks; diversity; systemic risk; machine learning Clustering; banks; diversity; systemic risk; machine learning (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000151:018219 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Revista de Economía del Rosario from Universidad del Rosario Contact information at EDIRC. |
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