Ayse Sungur in Shenzhen
Ms. Ayse Sungur, Senior Financial Market Infrastructure Expert at The SEACEN Centre, served as a guest lecturer at the China-IMF Capacity Development Center (CICDC) Course on Central Bank Digital Currencies: Principles and Policy Considerations in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, in February 2024. During her session, Ayse shared insights into SEACEN member jurisdictions’ experiences with…
New Blog Post!
Check out the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Kate Sweetman: It is a tough leadership challenge to provide both the stability, notably price stability and financial stability, that is a central bank’s central mandate with the agility and imagination to deal with the threats and opportunities of our time (you know the…
New Blog Post!
Check out the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Ole Rummel: Bitcoin is an ‘asset’ like no other, having staged a series of four bubbles…and counting. For crypto enthusiasts the reason is clear: the cryptocurrency has become an accepted asset class benefitting from both retail and institutional investor interest. But bitcoin’s price dynamics…
New Working Paper!
A new working paper (WP3/2024) by Srichander Ramaswamy is now available. Stablecoins serve as the nominal anchor against which prices of crypto assets are quoted and traded. But following the failures of the stablecoin Terra and the FTX crypto exchange in 2022, regulatory authorities have raised concerns about the risks stablecoins pose to the financial…
New Working Paper!
A new working paper (WP2/2024) by Rogelio Mercado Jr., and Luca Sanfilippo is now available. This paper uses MSBF flows dataset to assess capital flows push and pull factors and to provide new evidence on the effectiveness of capital account tightening measures. The results show: (i) higher U.S. monetary policy rates and global risk aversion…
Positions Available!
Exciting Opportunities at The SEACEN Centre! We are thrilled to announce the availability of two key positions at SEACEN. If you’re interested to work in a dynamic regional knowledge institution, read on! Head of Corporate Services As the Head of Corporate Services, you will provide leadership in the area of human capital, finance, administration, information…
New Blog Post!
Check out the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Meltem Chadwick, Victor Pontines and Ole Rummel: Climate change poses a common risk for all SEACEN member economies, but not all SEACEN member central banks/monetary authorities are prepared equally. This blog offers four guiding principles around which the process of incorporating climate change into…
Update: WP2/2022
Update on SEACEN Working Paper 02/2022 co-authored by Daniel Carvalho and Dr. Rogelio Mercado Jr. A revised version of SEACEN Working Paper No. 02/2022 authored by Daniel Carvalho, Etienne Lepers, and SEACEN’s Rogelio Mercado, Jr. , has been accepted for publication at Open Economies Review. Using novel datasets on both sectoral flows and policy measures, this paper…
Joint Press Communique: 59th SEACEN BOG Conference & Meeting
The 59th SEACEN Governors Conference/High Level Seminar and the 43rd Meeting of the SEACEN Board of Governors was sucessfully held on 15 – 16 February 2024 in Mumbai, India. Below is the official Press Communique in full: https://www.seacen.org/file/file/2023/DOCS/BOG2023Communique.pdf
Update: WP3/2022
Update on SEACEN Working Paper 03/2022 co-authored by Dr. Victor Pontines and Dr. Rogelio Mercado Jr. A revised version of SEACEN Working Paper No. 03/2022 co-authored by Dr. Victor Pontines and Dr. Rogelio Mercado, has been accepted for publication at Empirical Economics. The paper employs Bayesian model averaging and uses posterior inclusion probability values to evaluate which…