Hyun Song Shin

Governor, Bank of Korea

Hyun Song Shin was BIS Economic Adviser from May 2014 to March 2026 and also served as Head of the Monetary and Economic Department from January 2025.

Mr Shin has a background in academia. Before coming to the BIS in May 2014, he was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University, having previously held appointments at Oxford University and the London School of Economics. He has been an intellectual leader in the fields of banking, international finance and monetary economics, topics on which he has published widely, both in leading academic and official publications.

One area of recent focus has been in developing the BIS's work agenda on digital innovation and the financial system, laying out the implications for users, financial intermediaries and the central bank. Mr Shin was part of the BIS management team that developed the BIS Innovation Hub, and served as its Interim Head at its launch in 2019.

Mr Shin is a Korean national. In 2010, while on leave from Princeton University, he served as Senior Adviser to the Korean president, taking a leading role in formulating financial stability policy in Korea and developing the agenda for the G20 during Korea's presidency.

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BIS Working Paper No 256 17 Jul 2008

Liquidity and financial cycles

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Governor, Bank of Korea

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Liquidity and financial cycles

Risk and liquidity in a system context

Public and private information in monetary policy models

Communication and monetary policy

Positive feedback trading under stress: Evidence from the US Treasury securities market

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Dividends and bank capital in the global financial crisis of 2007-2009

Offshore EME bond issuance and the transmission channels of global liquidity

Big techs in finance: on the new nexus between data privacy and competition

From financial innovation to inclusion

International credit to emerging market economies during the Covid-19 crisis

Bond risk premia and the exchange rate

Central banks in a shifting world

Original sin redux and policy responses in EMEs during the Covid-19 pandemic

The dollar, bank leverage and real economic activity: an evolving relationship

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Reflections on the Lehman collapse, 10 years later

Cryptocurrencies and the economics of money

BIS Quarterly Review, March 2018 - media briefing

BIS Quarterly Review, December 2017 - media briefing

Can central banks talk too much?

Leverage in the small and in the large

Is there a risk of snapback in long-dated yields?

BIS Quarterly Review, September 2017 - media briefing

Globalisation: real and financial

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EME vulnerabilities take centre stage

Three BIS research themes in the Annual Report

Macroprudential tools, their limits and their connection with monetary policy

Toward a joined-up research agenda for central banks

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Media briefing on the BIS Quarterly Review, September 2023

New financial stability risks

The Impact of Tokenization on the Monetary System and the Need for Tokenized Central Banks

Unified Ledgers, Tokenized Deposits, and Governance

Improving the old, enabling the new

Media briefing on the BIS Quarterly Review, March 2023

Persistent risks in foreign exchange trades, hidden dollar debt

The strengthening US dollar: impacts and policy implications

Markets swing on changing perceptions of the policy outlook: BIS Quarterly Review

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