Jorge Pozo

Jorge Pozo
Jorge Pozo
Jefe del Departamento de Estadísticas Monetarias

Estudios realizados

Bachiller en Ingeniería Económica

Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Perú)
2007.

Maestría en Economía y Finanzas

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (España)
2013.

Doctor en Economía, Finanzas y Empresa

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (España)
2019.

Areas of interest

  • Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
  • Financial Markets

Keywords

  • bank risk-taking
  • macroeconomic stability
  • macroprudential policies
  • monetary policy

Perfiles académicos:

Jorge Pozo is Head of the Monetary Statistics Department at the BCRP. He holds a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Master's degree in Economics and Finance from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. His publications include articles in the Journal of Financial Stability, Emerging Markets Review, Latin American Journal of Central Banking, and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

Main Publications

Unconventional Credit Policy in an Economy with Supply and Demand Credit Frictions.

In this paper we develop a DSGE model where we reconcile credit demand and supply frictions and evaluate the effects of an unconventional credit policy. The credit policy consists on central bank loans to firms that are directly provided by the central bank or through commercial banks and they are guaranteed by the government. Credit supply frictions allow us to mimic a more realistic dynamics of credit after a monetary policy shock. We find that the credit policy diminishes the impact of a negative shock in the economy. Since central bank loans are not subject to the moral hazard problem between bankers and depositors, credit market interventions rise aggregate credit supply. The government guarantees reduce entrepreneurs’ default probability and hence increases aggregate credit demand. In periods of high uncertainty government guarantees’ effects become very significant. Also, when bank loans have a higher seniority than central bank loans, the effectiveness of the credit policy on reducing real fluctuations increases.

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Bank Competition and Risk-Taking.

This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition in the loan market and risk-taking in the Peruvian financial system. Our finding challenges the theoretical work of Martinez-Miera and Repullo (2010) that finds a U-shaped relationship between competition and risk-taking, as well as the empirical work of Jiménez et al. (2013) that finds evidence that supports this nonlinear relationship in a developed economy as Spain. In contrast, we find empirical evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between competition and risk-taking in Peru, an emerging economy. We develop a theoretical model to rationalize our empirical findings. One possible explanation for our findings is the greater presence of borrowing constraints faced by entrepreneurs, which is a common feature in emerging economies.

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