Benjamin H Cohen
Head of International Data Hub
Monetary and Economic Department, Statistics ＆ Research Support
ben.cohen@bis.org
Prior to becoming Head of the International Data Hub, Benjamin Cohen worked as Head of Financial Markets, Special Adviser for International Financial Stability Policy, 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
- " 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.