Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva
Deputy General Manager
Bank for International Settlements
Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva became Deputy General Manager on 1 October 2015. Before joining the BIS, Mr Pereira da Silva, a Brazilian national, had been Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil since 2010. Prior to that, he worked in various positions for the World Bank in Washington DC, Tokyo and southern Africa. He also served as Chief Economist for the Brazilian Ministry of Budget and Planning, and as Brazil's Deputy Finance Minister in charge of international affairs.
Fields of interest
- Monetary policy
- Financial stability and macroprudential issues
- DSGE models
- Inflation targeting and financial stability: a perspective from the developing world (with P-R Agénor), Inter-American Development Bank and Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos, 2013.
- " Sudden floods, macroprudential regulation and stability in an open economy" (with P-R Agénor and K Alper), Journal of International Money and Finance, vol 48, November 2014, pp 68-100.
- " Macroprudential regulation and the monetary transmission mechanism" (with P-R Agénor), Journal of Financial Stability, vol 13, August 2014, pp 44-63.
- "Capital regulation, monetary policy, and financial stability" (with P-R Agénor and K Alper), International Journal of Central Banking, September 2013, pp 193-238.
- " Capital requirements and business cycles with credit market imperfections" (with P-R Agénor and K Alper), Journal of Macroeconomics, vol 34, issue 3, September 2012, pp 687-705.
- " Cyclical effects of bank capital requirements with imperfect credit markets" (with P-R Agénor), Journal of Financial Stability, vol 8, January 2012, pp 43-56.
- "Macroeconomic stability, financial stability, and monetary policy rules" (with P-R Agénor), International Finance, vol 15, no 2, 2012, pp 205-24.