The conference focuses on financial reform, and provides a platform for evaluating and discussing China's financial liberalization, integration with the global financial markets, and the related implications for the global economy. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

Programme: - Recent Performance of the Hong Kong Dollar Foreign Exchange Market and the Linked Exchange Rate System - Transmitting Global Liquidity to East Asia: Dollar Credit in Mainland China and Hong Kong - Rising Mainland Exposure of Hong Kong Banks: Finding the Optimum Level and Assessing...

Main Theme: New Paradigm in Banking and Financial Market System, Current Economic and Financial Market Issues in the Europe and US Economy Papers dealing with general issues in macro-finance, financial/capital markets, and banking industry and regulations are also welcome.

Topics: • Sources of financial instability • Integrating a system-wide approach into financial regulation • Measurement of systemic risk • Identifying systemically important financial institutions, instruments and markets • Procyclicality in the financial system and countercyclical...

The annual joint conference with the KIF and the KAFA will be held as a one-day conference on Tuesday, May 26. While the main theme for this year's conference is the current financial crisis, papers dealing with general issues in macro-finance, financial/capital markets, and banking industry and...