Philip Wooldridge
Head of International Banking and Financial Statistics and Deputy Head of Statistics and Research Support
Monetary and Economic Department, Research & Statistics
Philip Wooldridge is Head of International Banking and Financial Statistics and Deputy Head of Statistics and Research Support. Previously he was a member of the secretariat for the Financial Stability Board, where he managed the work programme of the Standing Committee on Standards Implementation. From 2006 to 2009 he was a Senior Economist at the BIS office in Hong Kong, analysing Asian financial markets. At the BIS he also worked in the Financial Markets group, where he wrote regularly for the BIS Quarterly Review, and in the secretariat for the G10 Deputies. From 1995 to 1999 Philip worked at the Bank of Canada. He received his MA in Economics from the University of Toronto and BA from the University of British Columbia. He is a CFA charter holder.
Fields of interest
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Financial markets
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Financial and banking statistics
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International economics
Selected Publications
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"Why don't Asians invest in Asia? The determinants of cross-border portfolio holdings" (with A García-Herrero and D Y Yang), Asian Economic Papers, Fall 2009, vol 8, pp 228-246.
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"The euro as a reserve currency: a challenge to the pre-eminence of the US dollar?" (with G Galati), International Journal of Finance & Economics, January 2009, vol 14, pp 1-23.
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"The evolution of trading activity in Asian foreign exchange markets" (with Y Tsuyuguchi), Emerging Markets Review, December 2008, vol 9, pp 231-246.
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"Benchmark yield curves in the euro market", in European Fixed Income Markets: Money, Bond and Interest Rate Derivatives, J Batten, T Fetherston and P Szilagyi (eds), John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 2004, pp 85-95.
