Tag: BIS Research

Macroprudential policies, it is argued, are more targeted and can complement central bank’s use of interest rate policy.

The latest BIS global liquidity indicators showed that the share of Non-bank USD denominated credit continued its rising trend.

The figure above is from a recent BIS working paper "A key currency view of global imbalances". It shows the currency geography as of four dates from the last days of Bretton Woods until now: 1968, 1985, 2001 and 2017.

In the latest BIS Quarterly Review, researchers Ryan Banerjee and Boris Hofmann consolidated some of the earlier research to illustrate the problem of zombie firms. They argued that the rise of zombies predated the 2008 financial crisis, and has since been dragging down the productivity of the real economy.