Conference on Global Safe Assets, International Reserves, and Capital Flow
May 20-21, 2019
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Organized by Global Research Unit at Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong and Journal of International Money and Finance
Papers and Presentation Slides
Hard copies will not be provided during the conference. Please print and bring your own copies as needed. Thank you.
Organizers
Global Research Unit, City University of Hong Kong
Journal of International Money and Finance
About the Conference
The phenomenal build-up of global international reserves after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis has been attributed by Bernanke and others for the “saving glut.” Other observers viewed the reserves build-up as indicative of the coming of global shortage of safe assets – those assume low risk and high liquidity, in a world where the demand for safe assets has outstripped the supply. Both factors are considered as contributors of global imbalances and the 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis.
The excess demand for global safe assets has significant implications for global liquidity, financial market stability, capital flow, and global imbalances. Have the demand for and supply of global safe assets better aligned a decade after the Global Financial Crisis? The answer to this question depends on the evolution of demand for safe assets of the public and private sectors, and the growth of supply of these assets.
Anecdotal evidence indicates that the level of global total international reserves has topped around 2013 and drifted down since then. The notion of a multipolar international monetary system offers a hint to create global safe assets beyond the predominant US$-based safe assets. The recent increase of the euro share ofinternational and domestic paymentscurrency and the push towards the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi illustrate the potential competition among currencies for market shares, and for providing non-US$-based safe assets.
Against this backdrop, we invite researchers to present their original work on global safe assets and the related economic issues with perspectives on post-crisis developments in perspective. Possible topics include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
Those interested in presenting at the conference should send a complete paper or an extended abstract in WORD or PDF format via email to gruhkg@cityu.edu.hk by January 10, 2019. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by February 10, 2019. Final versions of the accepted papers will be posted onthe conference website (https://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/ef/conference/2019_JIMF). Presenters may apply for financial support to cover economy class airfare and local accommodation expenses.
Selected papers presented in the conference will be considered – via a far track review process – for a JIMF special issue titled “Global Safe Assets, International Reserves, and Capital Flow,” which is scheduled to be published in 2020. Co-editors are Joshua Aizenman (JIMF) and Yin-Wong Cheung (CityU, HK).
Organizing Committee
Joshua Aizenman, University of Southern California and the NBER
Yin-Wong Cheung, City University of Hong Kong
Isabel Yan, City University of Hong Kong
List of Participants
Enquiries
Yin-Wong Cheung: yicheung@cityu.edu.hk
Joshua Aizenman: aizenman@usc.edu
Global Research Unit: gruhkg@cityu.edu.hk
Acknowledgement
We thank the Hung Hing Ying and Leung Hau Ling Charitable Foundation (孔慶熒及梁巧玲慈善基金) for their support through the Hung Hing Ying Chair Professorship of International Economics (孔慶熒講座教授(國際經濟)).
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