Central bank balance sheets in emerging Asia have been expanding rapidly for the past decade, driven primarily by the accumulation of foreign exchange reserves. Some of the expansion reflects efforts to increase the buffer stock of reserves in the aftermath of the 1997–98 Asian Financial...

This paper discusses the scope for international macroprudential policy coordination in a financially integrated world economy. It first reviews the transmission channels associated with, and the empirical evidence on, financial spillovers and spillbacks - which have both increased in magnitude...

Serious fiscal vulnerabilities arising from many years of high government/GDP ratios have created new and complex interactions between public debt management and monetary policy. Although their formal mandates have not changed, recent balance sheet policies of many central banks have tended to...

Attention from policymakers tends to concentrate on the short-term effects of crisis policies on growth and financial stability. This paper investigates side-effects of current crisis policies from the perspective of the classic debate between Keynes and Hayek. It argues that three issues remain...

On 24-25 June 2010, the BIS held its Ninth Annual Conference, on "The future of central banking under post-crisis mandates" in Lucerne, Switzerland. The event brought together senior representatives of central banks and academic institutions who exchanged views on this topic. This volume...

Unlike most central banks which target interest rates, Singapore runs an exchange rate-centred monetary policy framework, in which the Singapore Dollar Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (S$NEER) is the intermediate target of monetary policy. The S$NEER fluctuates within a policy band that is...

The shift in global monetary policy from quantitative easing (QE) to the subsequent policy normalisation has led to volatile two-way capital flows for the emerging market economies (EMEs). Many EMEs' central banks have faced considerable challenges in maintaining monetary and financial stability...

Given the rapid and volatile capital flows that emerging market economies (EMEs) have experienced in the years following the global financial crisis, foreign exchange market developments and the corresponding intervention by EME central banks have quickly become pertinent issues. To shed light...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) designed and adopted a policy mix where reserve requirements, an asymmetric interest rate corridor and a reserve options mechanism (ROM) were used alongside the policy rate to reduce the negative...

The note discusses the main features of Russia's current macroprudential policy framework. In particular, it describes the Central Bank of the Russian Federation's legal mandate to ensure the stable functioning of the financial markets, explains the interagency coordination between Russian...