Frank Packer
Head of Financial Stability and Markets for Asia & the Pacific
Monetary and Economic Department
Frank Packer is head of Financial Stability and Markets at the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific. Previously, he was head of Financial Markets in the Monetary and Economics Department, and editor of the Bank's Quarterly Review of International Banking and Financial Market Developments. Prior to joining the BIS in 2003, Frank worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Nikko Citigroup in Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University; an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Harvard.
Fields of interest
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Financial markets
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Financial institutions
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Financial stability
Selected Publications
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"To err is human: Credit rating agencies and the interwar foreign government debt crisis," with Marc Flandreau and Norbert Gaillaird, European Review of Economic History, 2011.
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"From turmoil to crisis: dislocations in the FX swap market before and after the failure of Lehman Brothers", with Naohiko Baba, Journal of International Money and Finance, December 2009.
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"Interpreting deviations from covered interest parity during the financial market turmoil of 2007-08", with Naohiko Baba, Journal of Banking and Finance, November 2009.
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"Private Matters," with Jean Helwege, Journal of Financial Intermediation, July 2009.
