The goal of the workshop is to bring together China experts from central banks, other policy institutions and the private sector to discuss the foremost questions confronting the Chinese economy and their implications for the global economy, with a special interest towards policy-related topics...

Global trade growth was very weak over the past four years. While global trade grew at approximately twice the rate of GDP prior to the Great Recession, this trade elasticity has since declined to below unity. This raises the question to what extent the change in the relationship between global...

Topics: - the relationship between the stances of monetary policies, international capital flows and exchange rates; - divergent monetary policies and their implication for global financial stability; - spillovers of major central bank policies to other parts of the world, and the costs and...

Topics: - Liquidity risk in global payment and settlement systems - Globalisation of financial markets and liquidity management - Systemic risk in global payments - Interdependencies in payment and settlement systems - Collateral management in global payment and settlement systems - Recent...