Academics, market practitioners, and government agencies (particularly central banks) are especially concerned that fluctuations in real estate markets could affect the financial stability through many channels. They include (but not limited to): - wealth effect of households; - collateral...

Preliminary program: - How Do Business Cycles become Global? Common Shocks or Spillovers? - Asian-Pacific Financial Market Interactions with the U.S. and China: A Structural VAR Approach - Foreign Bank Subsidiaries' Default Risk during the Global Crisis: What Factors Help Insulate Affiliates...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

Programme: - Recent Performance of the Hong Kong Dollar Foreign Exchange Market and the Linked Exchange Rate System - Transmitting Global Liquidity to East Asia: Dollar Credit in Mainland China and Hong Kong - Rising Mainland Exposure of Hong Kong Banks: Finding the Optimum Level and Assessing...

Topics: • Sources of financial instability • Integrating a system-wide approach into financial regulation • Measurement of systemic risk • Identifying systemically important financial institutions, instruments and markets • Procyclicality in the financial system and countercyclical...