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...

Preliminary program: - How Do Business Cycles become Global? Common Shocks or Spillovers? - Asian-Pacific Financial Market Interactions with the U.S. and China: A Structural VAR Approach - Foreign Bank Subsidiaries' Default Risk during the Global Crisis: What Factors Help Insulate Affiliates...

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...