Balance Sheet Approach (BSA)

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Training Program: Balance Sheet Approach
Session No.: HQ 25.03
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Date: February 5-14, 2025 (1 week) New dates
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Deadline passed
Target Audience:
- Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics
- Officials overseeing macro-financial analysis

Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

The course is conducted by the Statistics Department.
Presents a user-friendly tool developed by the Statistics Department to automatically combine monetary, government, and international investment position data reported to the Statistics Department.
The tool creates a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis to support macro-financial analysis.
Use cases emphasized:
- Focus on overall balance sheet linkages.
- Identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement.

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

Use the BSA matrix information for the identification of balance sheet imbalances, exposures, and risks to shocks such as sudden capital outflows or sharp exchange rate depreciation.
Review and summarize the source data used for preparing the BSA matrix and identify critical data gaps for their respective countries.
Prepare work plans for addressing these data gaps over the medium-term, in order to provide national policy makers with an analytically useful BSA matrix.