Ken Miyajima

Ken Miyajima

Senior Economist
Monetary and Economic Department, Emerging Markets

Ken Miyajima is senior economist in the Monetary and Economics Department, Emerging Markets Unit. Previously, he was economist at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund, monitoring global capital markets and drawing financial stability implications. He was also in the investment banking industry, trading and structuring fixed-income derivatives products at JPMorgan. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include macro and financial stability issues in emerging markets.


Fields of interest

  • Emerging markets
  • Global financial stability

Selected Publications

  • Can You Map Global Financial Stability?; with Peter Dattels, Rebecca McCaughrin, and Jaume Puig; IMF Working Paper 10/145; June 2010.
  • Will Emerging Markets Remain Resilient to Global Stress?; with Peter Dattels; Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies; Volume 1, 5-24, 2009.
  • Namibia's Real Exchange Rate Performance; South African Journal of Economics, Vol 77, Issue 2, June 2009.
  • How to Evaluate GDP-Linked Warrants Price and Repayment Capacity; IMF Working Paper No. 06/85, March 1, 2006.

BIS Research papers

Date Research papers
Nov 2012

Emerging market local currency bonds: diversification and stability

Working Papers No 391

Other authors: Madhusudan Mohanty and Tracy Chan

Oct 2012

Developments of domestic government bond markets in EMEs and their implications

BIS Papers No 67

Other authors: Aaron Mehrotra and Agustin Villar