Working Papers - last 12 months

BIS Working Papers are written by economists from the BIS and, occasionally, from central banks or academic institutions. Some of these papers have been presented at BIS meetings or at events organised by other organisations. The views expressed in them are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the BIS.

Date Publications
May 2012
No 379

When capital adequacy and interest rate policy are substitutes (and when they are not)

by Stephen G Cecchetti and Marion Kohler

Apr 2012
No 378

Ensuring price stability in post-crisis Asia: lessons from the recovery

by Andrew Filardo

Apr 2012
No 377

Rapid credit growth and international credit: Challenges for Asia

by Stefan Avdjiev, Robert N McCauley and Patrick McGuire

Apr 2012
No 376

Systemic risk in global banking: what can available data tell us and what more data are needed?

by Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens and Patrick McGuire

Apr 2012
No 375

Loan loss provisioning practices of Asian banks

by Frank Packer and Haibin Zhu

Mar 2012
No 374

A Comprehensive Look at Financial Volatility Prediction by Economic Variables

by Charlotte Christiansen, Maik Schmeling and Andreas Schrimpf

Mar 2012
No 373

Collateral requirements for mandatory central clearing of over-the-counter derivatives

by Daniel Heller and Nicholas Vause

Feb 2012
No 372

Inflation Dynamics in the Presence of Informal Labour Markets

by Paul Castillo and Carlos Montoro

Feb 2012
No 371

Stochastic Herding in Financial Markets Evidence from Institutional Investor Equity Portfolios

by Makoto Nirei, Theodoros Stamatiou and Vladyslav Sushko

Feb 2012
No 370

Credit at times of stress: Latin American lessons from the global financial crisis

by Carlos Montoro and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Jan 2012
No 369

Stress-testing macro stress testing: does it live up to expectations?

by Claudio Borio, Mathias Drehmann and Kostas Tsatsaronis

Jan 2012
No 368

The sustainability of pension schemes

by Srichander Ramaswamy

Dec 2011
No 367

Is the long-term interest rate a policy victim, a policy variable or a policy lodestar?

by Philip Turner

Dec 2011
No 366

Currency Momentum Strategies

by Lukas Menkhoff, Lucio Sarno, Maik Schmeling and Andreas Schrimpf

Dec 2011
No 365

Was This Time Different?: Fiscal Policy in Commodity Republics

by Luis Felipe Céspedes and Andrés Velasco

Dec 2011
No 364

Perceptions and misperceptions of fiscal inflation

by Eric M. Leeper and Todd B. Walker

Dec 2011
No 363

The Liquidation of Government Debt

by Carmen M. Reinhart and M. Belen Sbrancia

Dec 2011
No 362

The "Austerity myth": Gain Without Pain?

by Roberto Perotti

Dec 2011
No 361

Long-term fiscal sustainability in major economies

by Alan J Auerbach

Nov 2011
No 360

China's evolving reserve requirements

by Guonan Ma, Yan Xiandong and Liu Xi

Nov 2011
No 359

Bank heterogeneity and interest rate setting: What lessons have we learned since Lehman Brothers?

by Leonardo Gambacorta and Paolo Emilio Mistrulli

Nov 2011
No 358

News driven business cycles and data on asset prices in estimated DSGE models

by Stefan Avdjiev

Nov 2011
No 357

Rescue packages and bank lending

by Michael Brei, Leonardo Gambacorta and Goetz von Peter

Nov 2011
No 356

The Impact of the International Financial Crisis on Asia and the Pacific: Highlighting Monetary Policy Challenges from a Negative Asset Price Bubble Perspective

by Andrew Filardo

Nov 2011
No 355

Anchoring countercyclical capital buffers: the role of credit aggregates

by Mathias Drehmann, Claudio Borio and Kostas Tsatsaronis

Sep 2011
No 354

Rediscovering the macroeconomic roots of financial stability policy: journey, challenges and a way forward

by Claudio Borio

Sep 2011
No 353

Central banking post-crisis: What compass for uncharted waters?

by Claudio Borio

Sep 2011
No 352

The real effects of debt

by Stephen G Cecchetti, Madhusudan Mohanty and Fabrizio Zampolli

Aug 2011
No 351

Weathering the financial crisis: good policy or good luck?

by Stephen G Cecchetti, Michael R King and James Yetman

Jul 2011
No 350

The value of repeat lending

by Blaise Gadanecz, Alper Kara and Philip Molyneux

Jul 2011
No 349

How do inflation expectations form? New insights from a high-frequency survey

by Gabriele Galati, Peter Heemeijer and Richhild Moessner

Jul 2011
No 348

The international propagation of the financial crisis of 2008 and a comparison with 1931

by William A. Allen and Richhild Moessner

May 2011
No 347

On harnessing the potential of financial inclusion

by Peter Dittus and Michael Klein

May 2011
No 346

Global imbalances and the financial crisis: Link or no link?

by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat