Publications

Selected publications by William.

Globalisation and the determinants of domestic inflation

March 2008 The remarkable stability of low domestic inflation in many countries requires explanation. In this paper, a number of competing hypotheses ...
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Speech by Mr William R White at the opening dinner of the BIS Conference in Honour of Palle Andersen Basel

Speech by Mr William R White, Economic Adviser and Head of Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, at the ...
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“Comments” on “The Housing Finance Revolution” by RK Green and S Wachter

Paper presented at the Symposium  on “Housing, housing finance and monetary policy” at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 29–31 September 2007 by William Roy ...
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Measured wealth, real wealth and the illusion of saving

Keynote speech at the Irving Fisher Committee Conference on “Measuring the financial position of the household sector”, Basel, 30-31 August ...
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Financial Globalisation

Opening remarks by Mr William R White, Economic Adviser and Head of Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, at the ...
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“Is Price Stability Enough? BIS Working Papers No 205:

Contribution to the “Festschrift Die Schweizerische Nationalbank 1907 2007 (commemorative publication ” The Swiss National Bank 1907-2007)   No one ...
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Procyclicality in the financial system: Do we need a new macrofinancial stabilization framework?

in Kiel Economic Policy Papers no 2 Kiel Institute for World Economics, September 2005 and BIS Working Papers, no 193, ...
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Economic and financial statistics: a glass half full or half empty?

in the Irving Fischer Committee Bulletin: Proceedings of the Conference on “Central Bank Issues regarding National and Financial Accounts Basel, ...
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Making macroprudential concerns operational

Speech by William R White, Economic Adviser, Bank for International Settlements, at a Financial Stability Symposium organised by the Netherlands ...
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“Making macroprudential concerns operational” in Financial Stability Policy: Proceedings of the Symposium: Challenges in the Asian Era

Symposium – De Nederlandsche Bank NV, 25-26 October 2004, Pages 47-64 Date:  25 October 2004 ~1004_Amsterdam_presentation_25-26Oct2004_speech versionDecember04.pdf ...
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“Are changes in financial structure extending safety nets?”BIS Working Papers No 145

Significant attention has recently been directed to the optimal policy response when financial excesses threaten. This paper rather addresses issues ...
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Whither Monetary and Financial Stability? The implications of evolving policy regimes

published as BIS Working Papers no 147,C Borio co-author, Feb 2004 Paper prepared for the Jackson Hole Symposium on “Monetary ...
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