Asian Monetary Policy Forum 2021

The AMPF is an annual flagship event co-organised and co-funded by the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economics Research (ABFER), University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Since its inception in 2014, the Forum has steadily established itself as a valuable platform for central bankers, policymakers, academics, and private sector analysts to discuss pressing monetary policy issues and challenges confronting Asia.

For 2021, a Special Edition of AMPF has been organised by the MAS and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on the topic of macro-financial stability policy in advanced and emerging market economies, in particular, the role of macroprudential policies in safeguarding financial stability and complementing monetary policy in the context of international spillovers. It continues to receive support from ABFER, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the NUS Business School. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Forum will take place virtually from 26 to 28 May 2021.

 

Further information on past AMPFs can be found on the ABFER AMPF Webpage .

Agenda

26 May, Wednesday
Opening session

 

Chair:

Edward Robinson

Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

 

Welcome Remarks

 

Ravi Menon

Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

 

Agustin Carstens

General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

 

Keynote Speech

 

Anil Kashyap (Pre-recording)

Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; and Member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England

Overview

 

Chair:

Bernard Yeung

Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor, National University of Singapore Business School

 

Authors:

Claudio Borio

Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements

 

Ilhyock Shim (Presenter)

Head of Economics and Financial Markets for Asia-Pacific, Bank for International Settlements

 

Hyun Song Shin

Economic Adviser and Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements

 

Discussant:

Linda Goldberg

Senior Vice President, Financial Intermediation Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

27 May, Thursday
Panel — Advanced economies

 

Chair:

Stijn Claessens

Deputy Head of MED & Head of Financial Stability Policy, Bank for International Settlements

 

Sweden

 

Authors:

Stefan Ingves (Presenter)

Governor and Chairman of the Executive Board, Swedish Riksbank

 

Johan Grip

Senior Economist, Swedish Riksbank

 

Discussant:

Charles Bean

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

 

United Kingdom

 

Authors:

Thorsten Beck (Presenter)

Professor of Banking and Finance, CASS Business School

 

Simon Lloyd

Senior Research Economist, Bank of England

 

Dennis Reinhardt

Senior Economist, Bank of England

 

Rhiannon Sowerbutts

Senior Economist, Bank of England

 

Discussant:

Paul Tucker

Chair of the Systemic Risk Council and Research fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

Thematic chapters

 

Chair:

Steven Davis

William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

 

Sending countries

 

Authors:

Katharina Bergant

Economist, International Monetary Fund

 

Kristin Forbes (Presenter)

Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics, MIT-Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

            

Discussant:

Valentina Bruno

Professor of Finance, Kogod School of Business, American University

 

Receiving countries

 

Author:

Sebastian Edwards

Professor of Global Economics and Management, Henry Ford II Chair in International Management, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles

           

Discussant:

Eswar Prasad

Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

 

Emerging policy framework

 

Authors:

Pierre-Richard Agénor (Presenter)

Hallsworth Professor of International Macroeconomics and Development Economics, University of Manchester

 

Luiz Pereira da Silva

Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

     

Discussant:

Barry Eichengreen

George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California

 

28 May, Friday
Panel — Large Asian economies

 

Chair:

Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Professor of International Economics at Graduate Institute of Geneva; Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute, Singapore; and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research

 

China

 

Authors:

Yiping Huang (Presenter)

Professor, National School of Development, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University

 

Tingting Lü

PhD candidate, Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University

 

Discussant:

Yi Huang

Associate Professor, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR

 

India

 

Author:

Viral Acharya

C.V. Starr Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business, New York University

 

Discussant:

Duvvuri Subbarao

Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India

 

Korea

 

Authors:

Hyun Song Shin

Economic Adviser and Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements

 

Kwanho Shin (Presenter)

Professor of Economics, Korea University

 

Discussant:

Hwanseok Lee

Deputy Governor, Bank of Korea

Panel — Commodity exporters

 

Chair:

Siddharth Tiwari

Chief Representative, BIS Representative Office for Asia-Pacific

 

Indonesia

 

Authors:

Muhamad Chatib Basri (Presenter)

Senior Lecturer, University of Indonesia

 

Reza Siregar

Special Staff, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs of Indonesia

 

Discussant:

Perry Warjiyo

Governor, Bank Indonesia

 

Latin America

 

Authors:

Ana Aguilar (Presenter)

Senior Economist, Bank for International Settlements

 

Alexandre Tombini

Chief Representative, BIS Office for the Americas

 

Fabrizio Zampolli

Head of Economics for Latin America & the Caribbean, Bank for International Settlements

 

Discussant:

Enrique Mendoza

Presidential Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Panel — Small open economies

 

Chair:

Benoit Mojon

Head of Economic Analysis, Bank for International Settlements

 

Croatia

 

Authors:

Boris Vujčić (Presenter)

Governor, Croatian National Bank

 

Mirna Dumičić Jemrić

Chief Advisor, Financial Stability Department, Croatian National Bank

 

Lana Ivičić

Advisor, Croatian National Bank

 

Discussant:

Tuomas Peltonen

Deputy Head, Secretariat, European Systemic Risk Board

 

Hong Kong SAR

 

Authors:

Robert McCauley (Presenter)

Non-resident Senior Fellow, Boston University's Global Development Policy Center

 

Catherine Schenk

Professor or Economic & Social History, Oxford University

 

Discussant:

Arthur Yuen

Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

 

Singapore

 

Authors:

Ramkishen Rajan (Presenter)

Yong Pung How Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

 

Edward Robinson

Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

 

Rosemary Lim

Executive Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

 

Discussant:

Yongheng Deng (Pre-recording)

Professor, Real Estate and Urban Land Economics and John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Closing Session

 

Chair:

Edward Robinson

Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

 

Concluding Remarks

 

Claudio Borio

Head of Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements

 

Hyun Song Shin

Economic Adviser and Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements

End of the conference

 

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