James Yetman

Deputy Head of Economics and Finance for Asia and the Pacific

BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific

james.yetman@bis.org

James joined the BIS in May 2008 and is based at the Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific in Hong Kong. He conducts research of relevance to central banks in the region. Previous posts include Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong (2001-08) and Research Economist for the Bank of Canada (1998-2001). He also spent shorter periods with the European Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. After attaining a BSc (Hons) from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and an MA at the University of British Columbia, he completed his PhD in Economics at Queen's University in Canada.

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Macroeconomics
International economics

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BIS Working Paper No 759 29 Nov 2018

Assessing inflation expectations anchoring for heterogeneous agents: analysts, businesses and trade unions

Forecasts of agents who are actively involved in the setting of prices and wages are less readily available than those of…

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James Yetman

Deputy Head of Economics and Finance for Asia and the Pacific

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All BIS publications (26)

Assessing inflation expectations anchoring for heterogeneous agents: analysts, businesses and trade unions

Why you should use the Hodrick-Prescott filter - at least to generate credit gaps

Accumulation of foreign currency reserves and risk-taking

The perils of approximating fixed-horizon inflation forecasts with fixed-event forecasts

The evolution of inflation expectations in Japan

The evolution of inflation expectations in Canada and the US

Foreign exchange intervention: strategies and effectiveness

Financial inclusion - issues for central banks

Spillovers of US unconventional monetary policy to Asia: the role of long-term interest rates

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De jure benchmark bonds

Which credit gap is better at predicting financial crises? A comparison of univariate filters

Accumulation of foreign exchange reserves and risk-taking

Assessing inflation expectations anchoring for heterogeneous agents: analysts, businesses and trade unions

Decaying expectations: what inflation forecasts tell us about the anchoring of inflation expectations

Inflation expectations anchoring across different types of agents: the case of South Africa

Are inflation targets credible? A novel test

Anchoring of inflation expectations in Latin America

An overview of the leaning against the wind debate: Discussion

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Deconstructing global trade

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