New Blog Post – 25 March
New blog post up, by Senior Economist Ozer Karagedikli, titled FDI and Capital Flows: New Perspectives from New Data, is now available exclusively on Suara SEACEN.
New Blog Post 20 March
This week Mark McKenzie continues his series on the threat of COVID-19 and how Central Banks around the world are responding. Click to read the full article exclusively on Suara SEACEN.
New SEACEN Podcast Episode!
COVID-19 and Business Continuity Management In this SEACEN Podcast, Glenn Tasky, Aziz Durrani and Mark McKenzie discuss COVID-19, financial stability and business continuity management (BCM) of central banks, stand-alone financial sector regulatory authorities, deposit insurance agencies (collectively, regulatory authorities), and financial institutions (FIs) themselves plays a central role. https://anchor.fm/the-seacen-centre/embed/episodes/Season-3—Episode-3-COVID-19-ebll3q
New Blog Post – 16 March
Senior Economist Ozer Karagedikli has written his thoughts on “Job-to-job transitions: A different lens for understanding wage dynamics”, exclusively available on Suara SEACEN.
New Blog Post!
This week Mark McKenzie looks at the threat of COVID-19 and how Central Banks around the world are responding. Click to read the full article exclusively on Suara SEACEN.
Call for Research Proposals
Visiting Research Economist (VRE): Collaborative Project The South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre will be undertaking one collaborative research project between participating economists of member central banks/monetary authorities and a visiting research economist (VRE) this year. The SEACEN Centre is therefore seeking research proposals on either one of the following two…
New SEACEN Working Paper
A new SEACEN Working Paper by @Özer Karagedikli and @Ole Rummel titled “Weighing up the Credit-to-GDP gap: A cautionary note” is now available. The authors take a look at the weights attached to the trend estimates in the way the BIS calculates the credit-to-GDP trends/gaps, which are then used in the countercyclical capital buffer calculations…
New Publication Update
Aziz Durrani, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, and Masyitah Rosmin, Research Associate at the SEACEN Centre have co-authored a paper with Dr. Ulrich Volz on the role of central banks in scaling up sustainable finance in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper has been published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. It highlights the findings from…
New Publication Update
Rogelio Mercado, Senior Economist at the SEACEN Centre, has published a paper entitled: “Are Capital Inflows Expansionary or Contractionary in the Philippines” at the Journal of Asian Economics. A working paper version was released as SEACEN WP27/2017. Click to read more. The paper shows the following:• Both bonds and non-bond capital inflows are expansionary to output and…
Call for Papers for 7th Policy Summit
The SEACEN Centre is pleased to announce a call for papers for its 7th Policy Summit on “Challenges and Options in Managing Capital Flows “. This year’s Policy Summit will take place on 18 and 19 June 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. More details, such as relevant topics and the associated deadlines, can be found below: