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22 May

The 2011 FDIC assessment on banks  managed liabilities: interest rate and balance-sheet responses (Working Paper)

16 May

Hitting the limits of "outside the box" thinking? Monetary policy in the crisis and beyond (speech by Jaime Caruana)

14 May

Consumer Inflation Expectations in Turkey (IFC Working Paper)

08 May

OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2012

29 Apr

Central bank finances (BIS Paper)

26 Apr

Structural bank regulation initiatives: approaches and implications (Working Paper)

26 Apr

Financial sector ups and downs and the real sector in the open economy: Up by the stairs, down by the parachute (Working Paper)

24 Apr

Preliminary international banking statistics at end-December 2012

23 Apr

Is China or India more financially open? (Working Paper)

17 Apr

Implementation of PFMIs monitored by CPSS and IOSCO

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Research
22 May

The 2011 FDIC assessment on banks  managed liabilities: interest rate and balance-sheet responses (Working Paper)

The global financial crisis led to discussion of corrective bank taxes to promote financial stability. This paper interprets the widening of the FDIC assessment base from deposits to assets less equity for US-chartered banks in April 2011 as such a ...
14 May

Consumer Inflation Expectations in Turkey (IFC Working Paper)

The expectations obtained from surveys play an important role as leading indicators for the application of the monetary policies. The ability to measure inflation expectations is an integral part of central bank policy especially for ...
29 Apr

Central bank finances (BIS Paper)

This paper looks at the relevance of a central bank's own finances for its policy work. Some central banks are exposed to significant financial risks, partly due to the environment in which they operate, and partly due to the nature of policy actions. While financial exposures and losses do not ...
26 Apr

Structural bank regulation initiatives: approaches and implications (Working Paper)

The paper examines the basic rationale and features of the proposals adopted to separate specific investment and commercial banking activities (Volcker rule, Vickers and Liikanen proposals). In particular, it focuses on ...
26 Apr

Financial sector ups and downs and the real sector in the open economy: Up by the stairs, down by the parachute (Working Paper)

We examine how financial expansion and contraction cycles affect the broader economy through their impact on real economic sectors in a panel of countries over 1960-2005. Periods of accelerated growth of the financial sector are more likely to be followed by ...
23 Apr

Is China or India more financially open? (Working Paper)

Measures of de facto capital account openness for China and India raise the question whether the Chinn-Ito measure of de jure capital account openness is useful and whether the Lane-Milesi-Ferretti measure of ...
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Speeches
Central bankers' speeches
23 May
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BIS Management speeches
16 May

by Jaime Caruana: Hitting the limits of "outside the box" thinking? Monetary policy in the crisis and beyond

Central banks have had to "think outside the box" to address unprecedented financial instability and to provide monetary stimulus in trying times. Monetary accommodation has been critical to stabilise the financial system and the economy...

08 Apr

by Jaime Caruana: Insurance and financial stability: a Basel view

BIS General Manager Jaime Caruana speaks about the importance of the work that the International Association of Insurance Supervisors and the supervisory community are undertaking...

22 Nov

by Jaime Caruana: Assessing global liquidity from a financial stability perspective

Global liquidity has become a focus of the international policy debate. Despite accommodative monetary policies and a pickup in search-for-yield behaviour, several...

16 Nov

by Jaime Caruana: International monetary policy interactions: challenges and prospects

Systematic incorporation of spillovers is an essential but missing aspect of most monetary policy decision-making processes. The policy influences that need to be taken into account involve short-term policy rates...

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Statistics
16 May

BIS effective exchange rate indices

08 Apr

OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2012

30 Apr

Release of property price data

24 Apr

Preliminary international banking statistics at end-December 2012

12 Apr

Long series on credit to private non-financial sectors

18 Mar

Quarterly Review: summary tables and detailed tables

04 Jan

Statistics on payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries - Figures for 2011

28 Nov

BIS, ECB and IMF publish third part of Handbook on Securities Statistics

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Basel Committee
12 Apr

Report to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on monitoring implementation of Basel III regulatory reform

11 Apr

Monitoring tools for intraday liquidity management - final document

04 Apr Progress report on implementation of the Basel regulatory framework
26 Mar

Supervisory framework for measuring and controlling large exposures - consultative document

22 Mar

Recognising the cost of credit protection purchased - consultative document

21 Mar

External audits of banks - consultative document

20 Mar

Basel Committee concludes assessment of Basel III capital regulations in Singapore

19 Mar Results of the Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2012
12 Mar Where to next? Priorities and themes for the Basel Committee (speech by Stefan Ingves)
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