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International Monetary & Financial Cooperation Promoter Between Central Banks & International Organisations
Chairman & President
Nout H.E.M. WellinkNumber of Employees 526
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities: 522320
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Housing Price Bubbles - A Tale Based on Housing Price Booms and Busts
BNET
- 2005-04-22
This paper focuses on housing price bubbles, and the price increases in this asset class in a number of industrial countries. However, large price increases - which will be referred to as booms - are only sufficient but not necessary conditions for bubbles. The purpose of this paper is to...
Real Estate Prices and CNB Monetary Policy
BNET
- 2005-04-22
Real estate prices are among the fundamental indicators for the development of asset prices. The growing importance of asset prices for central banks' monetary policy is the consequence of the ongoing liberalization of the economic environment and the ensuing globalization of the world economy. The question of asset prices in...
Debt-Deflation: Concepts and a Stylized Model
BNET
- 2005-04-01
This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasizing the relation between deflation and financial distress, the paper captures some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling, instability, and endogenous monetary contraction. What keeps...
Time-Varying Exposures and Leverage in Hedge Funds
BNET
- 2005-03-01
Hedge funds can quickly take large positions in various asset markets, only to unwind them as market conditions change. This flexibility and the ability to leverage positions are arguably the distinguishing characteristics that drive hedge fund returns but are also said to potentially add to market volatility. While some information...
Inflation Targeting, Asset Prices and Financial Imbalances: Conceptualizing the Debate
BNET
- 2005-01-01
This paper attempts to conceptualize the debate regarding the role of asset prices and perceived financial imbalances in the formation of monetary policy from the perspective of theoretically optimal policy responses. While much of the disagreement can be reconciled within the framework of flexible inflation targeting, defined as a commitment...
Liquidity Risk and Contagion
BNET
- 2004-04-02
This paper explores liquidity risk in a system of interconnected financial institutions when these institutions are subject to regulatory solvency constraints and mark their assets to market. When the market's demand for illiquid assets is less than perfectly elastic, sales by distressed institutions depress the market prices of such assets....
Institutional Asset Managers: Industry Trends, Incentives and Implications for Market Efficiency
BNET
- 2003-09-01
The paper reveals the distinguishing characteristic of the industry as asset management activities that involves a series of delegated processes, linking the "triangle" formed by invested funds, fund owners and fund managers. As a result, contractual structures that seek to align the incentives of fund owners with the incentives of...
Optimal Dynamic Hedging Using Futures Under a Borrowing Constraint
BNET
- 2002-01-01
Both financial and non-financial firms routinely implement hedging policies to mitigate their exposure to changes in asset prices. This paper derives the dynamic hedging strategy of a firm that uses futures contracts to hedge a spot market exposure. The risk emanating from the margin requirement on futures contracts is incorporated...
The Effects of Consolidation on Efficiency, Competition and Credit Flows
BNET
- 2001-01-22
The liberalizations of financial markets and the accelerating development of information technology have increased competition both within and across industries. In particular, the lowering of geographical barriers and the increasing integration of financial markets pit against each other banks, insurance and asset management companies that used to operate in segmented...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Slade | Vice President of the Administrative Tribunal |
| Herve Hannoun | Deputy General Manager |
| Andre Icard | Deputy General Manager |
| Malcolm D. Knight | General Manager |
| Mario Giovanoli | General Counsel & Manager |
| Renato Filosa | Manager, Monetary & Economic Dept |
| Elisabeth Striegel | |
| Gunter D. Baer | Secretary General |
| Gunter Pleines | Head, Banking Dept |
| Lisa Weekes | Press Officer |
| Margaret Critchlow | Press Officer |
| Mike Finlay | Lecturer |
| Peter Dittus | Deputy Secretary General |
| William R. White | Head, Monetary & Economic Dept |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Nout H.E.M. Wellink | Chairman & President |
| Jean-Pierre Roth | Chairman |
| Alfons Vicomte Verplaetse | Board of Directors |
| Antonio Fazio | Board of Directors |
| David Dodge | Board of Directors |
| Edward A.J. George | Board of Directors |
| Ernst Welteke | Board of Directors |
| Guy Quaden | Board of Directors |
| Hans Tietmeyer | Board of Directors |
| Jean-Claude Trichet | Board of Directors |
| Lars Heikensten | Board of Directors |
| Vincenzo Desario | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank for International Settlements | Chairman & President | Current |
| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
Elizabeth Slade specialises in all aspects of employment and discrimination law and the employment law aspects of pensions. She acts for employers, employees and their representatives, appearing before Courts and Tribunals at all levels. She deals with both public and private sector employment issues. She has experience of conducting and appearing as counsel to inquiries and of acting as a Designated Independent Person. Recent cases in which Elizabeth Slade has appeared include Blackburn and Manley v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [2007] EAT (equal pay), Leicestershire CC v Unison [2006] IRLR 810 (redundancy consultaion with trade unions), Home Office v Bailey [2005] IRLR 369, CA (equal pay), Igen v Wong [2005] IRLR 258 CA (burden of proof in discrimination cases), Webley v Department of Work and Pensions [2005] ICR 577 CA (fixed term workers regulations), Ministry of Defence v Armstrong [2004] IRLR 672 EAT (equal pay), Middlesborough Council v TGWU [2002] IRLR 332 (redundancy consultation with trade unions ), Stunt v Mallett [2001] ICR 989 CA (police pensions), Nagarajan v London Regional Transport [1999] 3 WLR 425 HL (victimisation) and Westminster City Council v Haywood [1998] Ch 377 CA (Pensions Ombudsman). Elizabeth was the original author of Tolley?s Employment Handbook and editor or co-editor of the 2nd to 7th editions. Elizabeth is a Recorder and Deputy High Court Judge and until 2003 sat as a temporary part-time judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. She is Vice President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Bank for International Settlements, Basle and a member of the Administrative Tribunal of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Elizabeth is an honorary Vice-President and past Chairman of the Employment Law Bar Association. She is a Bencher of the Inner Temple, having been elected in 1990. Elizabeth has served as Chairman of the Sex Discrimination Committee of the Bar Council and as a Trustee of the Free Representation Unit. Elizabeth is a CEDR qualified mediator..
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Vice President of the Administrative Tribunal | Current |
| 11KBW Limited | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Deputy General Manager | Current |
| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Deputy General Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | General Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | General Counsel & Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Manager, Monetary & Economic Dept | Current |
Elisabeth believes that AHRMIO provides an excellent unique forum for HR professionals in international organisations to exchange knowledge and ideas and to learn from each other which becomes all the more important as most organisations face significant changes that will challenge current HR strategies and approaches. After a number of years experience in the private sector, Elisabeth joined the international not-for-profit sector in 1992 to "make a difference". She has worked for the Bank for International Settlements since then in human resources, particularly in the areas of performance management and management and leadership development.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Current | |
| Ahrmio | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Secretary General | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Head, Banking Dept | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Press Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Press Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Riskbusiness | Managing Director | Current |
| Bank for International Settlements | Lecturer | Current |
| Brunel University | MBA | Former |
| University of the Witwatersrand | Bachelor of Commerce Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Deputy Secretary General | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Head, Monetary & Economic Dept | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| International Monetary Fund | Board of Governors | Current |
| Bank for International Settlements | Chairman | Current |
| Swiss National Bank | Chairman | Current |
| University of Geneva | Doctorate in Economics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| European Central Bank | President | Current |
| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bank for International Settlements | Board of Directors | Current |
Executive News
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Ben Bernanke meets Ban Ki-moon
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Trichet Cautions on High Stakes
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Basel group sets out bank rules to avoid crises
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Growing pains persist
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Recession shows signs of waning: ECB
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BIS-New bank rules help avoid booms, busts-Trichet
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Global regulators flag sweeping new bank rules
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Global regulators flag new bank rules
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2nd UPDATE: BIS: Central Bankers Agree On Steps To Avoid Crisis
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UPDATE: BIS: Top Central Bankers Agree On Steps To Avoid Crisis
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Global regulators flag sweeping new bank rules
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UPDATE 1-Global regulators flag sweeping new bank rules
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GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEKAHEAD-Longer-term growth still an issue
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G20 to keep policies until recovery certain
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Re climbs to 48.90 against dollar
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Stocks Rally Ahead of Holiday Weekend
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Britain to Lag in Exiting Recession
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Mixed Message of Job Data Helps Stocks Rise
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Traders Seek a Bright Side After Jobs Data
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CURRENCIES: Dollar Mostly Lower Ahead Of U.S. Jobs Report
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