Corrinne Ho

Corrinne Ho is a senior economist in the Monetary and Economic Department. Before returning to the Bank's Basel headquarters in 2008, she had been on a four-year assignment at the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, located in Hong Kong. Prior to joining the Bank in 2000, she was a lecturer at Princeton University for both the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, while completing her doctoral degree in Economics. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on modern-day currency boards, and has since continued to pursue her interest in foreign exchange, monetary policy (in particular, central bank operations) and financial institutions in both her research and policy analysis work.

Fields of interest

• International finance
• Exchange rates
• Central banking

Selected Publications

• "Financial sector rescue measures in the 2008-2009 crisis: an interim assessment", in Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization, Elsevier, forthcoming in 2012 (with F M Signoretti).
• "Implementing monetary policy in the 2000s: operating procedures in Asia and beyond", in Challenges in central banking: the current institutional environment and forces affecting monetary policy, P L Siklos, M T Bohl and M E Wohar (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2010; longer version available as BIS Working Papers no 253, June 2008.
• "The domestic financial consequences of reserve accumulation: some evidence from Asia", in Exchange rate, monetary and financial issues and policies in Asia, R S Rajan, S Thangavelu and R A Parinduri (eds), World Scientific, 2009, pp 117-153 (with R N McCauley).
• "Understanding Asian equity flows, market returns and exchange rates", BIS Working Papers no 245, February 2008 (with C Chai-anant).
• "Macroeconomic news and the euro/dollar exchange rate", Economic Notes, vol 32, November 2003, pp 371-398 (with G Galati); also as BIS Working Papers no 105, January 2002.