Irving Fisher Committee

Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics events

Forthcoming events

Fourth IFC Conference on "Measuring financial innovation and its impact", Basel, 26 and 27 August 2008

Policy makers and analysts are struggling to keep up with financial innovations and to gauge their potential impact on the economy. Central bankers, in particular, face major challenges to measure the potential impact of financial innovation on monetary and financial stability. With respect to the latter, one major concern is the development of proper measures of financial risk, both at the micro level of individual financial instruments or financial institutions as well as at the macro level of the financial system as a whole. The list of themes for the conference gives an indication of the wide range of policy-related issues that arise in this context. Participation is open to IFC institutional members, other central banks, as well as members of other ISI sections and committees. Persons interested in participating in the conference, can complete the call for papers form or contact the IFC Secretariat more information.

The IFC's contribution to the 57th ISI Session, Durban, 16 to 22 August 2009

The IFC will sponsor or co-sponsor 7 Invited Paper Meetings (IPMs) at this Session, namely:

IPM 102: The implementation of, and the training on, the new SNA and BOP - jointly with the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)
IPM 104: Quantification of qualitative data from surveys
IPM 105: The size and impact of statistical revisions
IPM 106: Statistics of institutional investors
IPM 107: Models of modern data and metadata systems
IPM 111: Measuring access to monetary and financial services
IPM 150: Risks in Finance - the state of the art in statistical methods - jointly with the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)

Persons interested in acting as authors or discussants in one of these IPMs can contact the IFC Secretariat for more information.

Past events

Workshop on "The use of surveys by central banks", Vienna, 18 to 20 March 2008

This workshop was organised in cooperation with the Austrian National Bank and took place at the Joint Vienna Institute. Participation was by invitation only.
Workshop on "Challenges to improve global comparison of securities statistics", Washington D.C., 4 and 5 March 2008

This workshop took place at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. Participation was open to IFC institutional members and selected experts from other central banks, statistical agencies and private sector organisations.
Workshop on "The use of surveys by central banks", Buenos Aires, 11 to 13 December 2007

The IFC organised this workshop in cooperation with CEMLA (Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies). It was hosted by the Central Bank of the Republic of Argentina. Participation was by invitation only.
Contribution to 56th Session of the ISI, Lisbon, 22 to 29 August 2007

The IFC organised 10 meetings at the 56th Session of the ISI, some of which were co-sponsored with other ISI sections. The papers presented during these meetings will be published in a future issue of the IFC Bulletin.
Workshop on "The use of surveys by central banks", Pune, 27 and 29 June 2007

The IFC organised this workshop in cooperation with SEACEN (the South East Asian Central Banks Research and Training Centre). It was hosted by the Reserve Bank of India. The results of this workshop, as well as the results of the December 2007 and March 2008 workshops on the same topic, will be published in a future issue of the IFC Bulletin.
Contribution to IAOS Conference, Ottawa, 6 to 8 September 2006

The IFC contributed to a conference entitled "People on the Move", organised by the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS). The IAOS had invited the IFC to organise a plenary session on the topic "Financial Aspects of Migration: The Measurement of Remittances". Mr Cadete de Matos, member of the IFC Executive and Director of the Statistics Department at the Bank of Portugal, structured and chaired the session. The papers presented during the session were published in the 27th issue of the IFC Bulletin.
Third IFC Conference on "Measuring the Financial Position of the Household Sector", Basel, 30 and 31 August 2006

The Third IFC Conference took place the BIS. The theme of the conference was "Measuring the Financial Position of the Household Sector". The importance of this topic in central banking circles was reflected in the overwhelming interest shown in the conference. More than 130 experts from 68 central banks participated in the conference and 42 papers were presented. The themes that were covered included: measurement issues related to household wealth and debt, distributional aspects of household finances and the use of household surveys to gather information on household finances. The results of the conference were published in the 25th and 26th issue of the IFC Bulletin.
Workshop on "CPI Measures: Central Bank views and concerns", Basel, 20 and 21 April 2006

The IFC hosted a very successful workshop entitled "CPI Measures: Central Bank views and concerns". 37 CPI experts from 26 central banks and the IMF attended the workshop which took place at the BIS. Discussions took place on a number of issues, including international methodological standards for CPI, inflation measures from the perspective of monetary policy and quantifying the measurement bias in CPIs. Issue notes and summaries of the discussions as well as comparative tables were published in the 24th issue of the IFC Bulletin. As a result of the workshop, suggestions for future work were submitted to international groups dealing with international CPI methodology.