Asian research programme

The Asian research programme focuses on policy issues faced by central banks and supervisory authorities in the Asia-Pacific region. The research focuses on three areas: monetary policy and exchange rates, developing money and capital markets, and financial stability and prudential policy.

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03.11.2008 Upcoming workshop: Nowcasting with model combination.
09.09.2008 Materials from the conference The first workshop of Asian Research Network on Financial Markets and Institutions have been published as BIS Papers.
29.07.2008 Materials from the conference Structural Dynamic Macroeconomic Models in Asia-Pacific Economies are now available.
20.06.2008

The following papers have been released:

Implementing monetary policy in the 2000s: operating procedures in Asia and beyond by Corrinne Ho, BIS Working Papers, no 253;

The evolution of trading activity in Asian foreign exchange markets by Yosuke Tsuyuguchi and Philip Wooldridge, BIS Working Papers, no 252;

Credit derivatives and structured credit: the nascent markets of Asia and the Pacific by Eli Remolona and Ilhyock Shim, BIS Quarterly Review;

Information Flows During the Asian Crisis: Evidence from Closed-end Funds by Benjamin Cohen and Eli Remolona, Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol 27, No 4, pp 636-53;

Is the Chinese banking system benefiting from foreign investors? by Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Daniel Santabarbara, Bank of Finland's Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) Discussion Papers no 11/2008;

Asian banks in the international interbank market by Robert N McCauley and Jens Zukunft, BIS Quarterly Review.

19.06.2008 The new Asian research programme webpages are now online.