Financial Sector Policies

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• Session: CT 24.02
• Location: Beijing, China
• Dates: February 26, 2024 - March 8, 2024 (2 weeks)
• Delivery method: In-person Training
• Primary language: English
• Status: New dates

Invitation and Logistics

• Session No.: CT 24.02
• Location: Beijing, China
• Date: February 26, 2024 - March 8, 2024 (2 weeks) New dates
• Delivery Method: In-person Training
• Primary Language: English
• Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development

Target Audience

• Junior to senior government officials engaged in setting policy for the financial sector.
• Staff of central banks, financial regulators, and any other agencies involved in micro- or macroprudential oversight.

Qualifications and Prerequisites

• Expected background:
  • An advanced degree in economics or finance, or equivalent work experience.
  • A basic understanding of econometrics.
  • The ability to interpret econometric results.
  • Working knowledge of Excel.
• Strong recommendation:
  • Completion of the online Financial Market Analysis (FMAx) course and the Financial Sector Surveillance (FSS) course, because understanding and assessing financial sector risks is important to the design of mitigating policies.

Course Description — Scope and Approach

• Focus:
  • Overview of financial risks and transmission channels within and between the financial system and the real sector.
  • Design and impact of financial sector policies to mitigate assessed vulnerabilities.
• Content emphasis:
  • Rationale for micro-prudential and macroprudential policies.
  • Interactions between macroeconomic and macro-prudential policies.
  • Preventive strategies and policies to deal with financial distress situations and contingency planning.
• Methodology:
  • Combination of lectures, case studies, and hands-on workshops.
  • Participants discuss and experiment with various policies to gauge intended and unintended outcomes.
• Note:
  • Participants primarily interested in risk assessment are referred to the Financial Sector Surveillance course, where risk assessment is the focus.

Course Objectives — Competencies on Completion

• Identify channels through which shocks are transmitted between the financial sector and the real economy, and within and between financial systems.
• Analyze relevant micro- and macroprudential policies, how they are likely to interact with other policies, and any possible unintended consequences.
• Recommend macroprudential tools to prevent and mitigate systemic risk and identify likely specific implementation challenges.
• Assess the effectiveness of microprudential and macroprudential policies.

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References

• In-person Training
• Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)
• Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)
• Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
• Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)
• Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)