Benjamin H Cohen
Benjamin Cohen is Head of Financial Markets in the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS. Prior to his present position, Benjamin worked as a senior economist in the Financial Markets and Monetary Policy units at the BIS, and in the secretariats of the Financial Stability Board, the Financial Stability Forum and the Committee on the Global Financial System. From 2003 to 2005 he was a senior economist in the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995.
Fields of interest
- Financial markets
- Financial institutions and microprudential issues (including banking supervision)
- Financial stability and macroprudential issues
| Sep 2018 |
Other authors: Peter Hördahl and Dora Xia
BIS Quarterly Review
| September 2018
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| Mar 2017 |
Other authors: Gerald A. Edwards, Jr.
BIS Quarterly Review
| March 2017
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| Aug 2016 |
This note analyses the exposure of emerging market economies to international capital flow risks, paying particular attention to vulnerabilities in the non-financial corporate sector. It stresses the importance of studying the stocks of debt, gross rather than net flows, borrowers' nationality rather than location and the currency denomination of debt. Other authors: Nikola Tarashev and Stefan Avdjiev |
| Mar 2014 |
Other authors: Michela Scatigna
BIS Working Papers
| No 443
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| Sep 2013 |
BIS Quarterly Review
| September 2013
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| Jan 2003 |
Other authors: Hyun Song Shin
BIS Working Papers
| No 122
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| Aug 2002 |
Other authors: Hyun Song Shin
BIS Papers
| No 12
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| Jun 2002 |
Other authors: Hyun Song Shin
BIS Quarterly Review
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| Apr 2001 |
Other authors: Eli M Remolona
BIS Papers
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| Dec 2000 |
Other authors: Eli M Remolona
BIS Working Papers
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- " Global liquidity: a selected review" (with D Domanski, I Fender and H S Shin), Annual Review of Economics, vol 9, pp 587-612, 2017.
- " Banks and capital requirements" (with M Scatigna), Journal of Banking and Finance, vol 29, supp 1, August 2016, pp S56-S69. Also published as BIS Working Papers, no 443 .
- " Five questions and six answers about macroprudential policy" (with J Caruana), Banque de France Financial Stability Review, no 18, pp 15-23, 2014.
- " Positive feedback trading under stress: evidence from the US Treasury securities market" (with H S Shin), Global Economic Review: Perspectives on East Asian Economies and Industries, vol 42, no 4, pp 314-45, 2013. Also published as BIS Working Papers, no 122.
- " Information flows during the Asian crisis: evidence from closed-end funds" (with E Remolona), Journal of International Money and Finance, vol 27, no 4, pp 636-53, 2008. Also published as BIS Working Papers, no 97.
- " The unfolding turmoil of 2007-2008: lessons and responses" (with E Remolona), in P Bloxham and C Kent (eds), Lessons from the financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, Reserve Bank of Australia, pp 7-22, 2008.
- " Finanzmärkte und Systemrisiko in Europa" (with A Crockett), in D Hummel and R E Breuer (eds), Handbuch Europäischer Kapitalmarkt, 2001.
- " Derivatives, volatility and price discovery", International Finance, vol 2, no 2, pp 167-202, 1999. Also published as BIS Working Papers, no 33.