Mit seinen Veröffentlichungen in den Medien, seinen RWI : Positionen und der Mitwirkung an der vom Bundesministerium der Wirtschaft und Technologie in Auftrag gegebenen Gemeinschaftsdiagnose hat das Institut nach Kräften dazu beizutragen versucht, auch außerhalb der engen Fachwelt Licht in...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) jointly organised a workshop on property markets and financial stability in Singapore on 5 September 2011. The workshop aimed to bring together academics and researchers at central banks, regulatory...

Ever more extensive global financial linkages are changing in ways that have significant implications for policy. Asia-Pacific countries have experienced a particularly rapid growth in financial flows since the crisis. Against this background, the BIS's Representative Office for Asia and the...

Inflation targeting has been criticised for being ‘inflation only’ targeting and hence, for ignoring output and employment. This paper argues that this criticism is misplaced. The inflation-targeting framework has sufficient flexibility to allow for the short-run trade-off between output and...