We develop a simple theoretical model and then use bank data from seven Asian economies to investigate the effects on bank lending of different liquidity management tools used by central banks. We find that hiking reserve requirements to sterilise foreign exchange purchases will retard bank...

Bank Indonesia and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) co-hosted a research conference on “Expanding the boundaries of monetary policy in Asia and the Pacific” on 20–21 August 2015 in Jakarta. The event was the wrap-up conference of a research programme of the BIS Representative...

This volume is a collection of the speeches, presentations and papers from a conference on "The International Financial Crisis and Policy Challenges in Asia and the Pacific". The event was co-hosted by the People's Bank of China (PBC) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to mark the...

Foreign exchange reserves have grown dramatically in emerging Asia over the past decade. Many of these reserves have been sterilized, via the issuance of non-monetary liabilities by central banks, with the sterilization instruments held largely by domestic banks. We investigate the effects of...

Central bank balance sheets have been expanding rapidly over the past decade in emerging Asia, due to the unprecedented rise in foreign reserve assets. We outline the changes in the composition of both assets and liabilities on central bank balance sheets in the region, and the factors that have...

Since its launch in September 2006, the Asian Research Programme has focused on policy-oriented studies for central banks and supervisory authorities in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the programme, the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific has co-organised a series of conferences,...

This paper investigates how solidly inflation expectations are anchored in Asia, using inflation forecasts by professional forecasters from Consensus Economics. We examine inflation expectations using three different methods. First, we assess the behaviour of longer-term (both five-year-ahead...

In this paper we examine how monetary policy should respond to nominal exchange rates in a New Keynesian open economy model that allows for a non-trivial role for sterilised intervention. The paper develops the argument against the backdrop of the evolving policy-making environment of Asian...

In this paper we examine how monetary policy should respond to nominal exchange rates in a New Keynesian open economy model that allows for a non-trivial role for sterilised intervention. The paper develops the argument against the backdrop of the evolving policy-making environment of Asian...

Standard measures of real economic co-movement between Asia-Pacific economies and those elsewhere had been observed to follow a downward trend, leading some commentators to suggest that the region was decoupling. However, this process reversed in response to the International Financial Crisis,...