Sovereign assets and liabilities management : proceedings of a conference held in Hong Kong SAR / edited by Marcel Cassard and David Folkerts-Landau.

Papers presented at a conference hosted by the International Monetary Fund and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in November 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

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This volume, edited by David Folkerts-Landau and Marcel Cassard, consists of papers presented at a conference held in Hong Kong SAR that was hosted by the IMF and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. It focuses on a wide range of issues confronting policymakers in managing their sovereign assets and liabilities in a world of mobile capital and integrated capital markets. Topics include public debt management strategy, central bank reserves management, technical and quantitive aspects of risk management, and credit costs and borrowing capacity in optimizing debt management. The papers draw on experiences of policymakers and private sector participants actively involved in formulating and implementing debt and reserves policy.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Management of Sovereign Assets and Liabilities -- 3 Debt and Asset Management and Financial Crises: Sellers Beware -- Comments -- 4 Foreign Currency Liabilities in Debt Management -- Comments by Gregory Makoff -- 5 Sovereign Liability Management: An Irish Perspective -- 6 Management of Risks in Foreign Currency Funding and Debt Management -- 7 Autonomous Sovereign Debt Management Experience -- 8 Public Debt Management Strategy: Belgium's Experience -- 9 Central Bank Reserves Management

10 Trends in Central Bank Reserves Management11 Reserves Management Operations in Australia -- 12 Foreign Borrowing by the Kingdom of Denmark -- 13 Credit Costs and Borrowing Capacity in Debt Optimization -- 14 Risk Management Process for Central Banks -- 15 Technical and Quantitative Aspects of Risk Management -- Notes on Contributors

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