2015 ISI World Statistics Congress, Rio de Janeiro: Overview of IFC organised meetings

Chair: Charles Thomas (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

Papers:

Bruno Tissot (Bank for International Settlements), "Derivatives statistics: the BIS contribution" (paper) (presentation)
Linda Fache Rousová, Małgorzata Osiewicz and Grzegorz Skrzypczyński (European Central Bank), "The challenges of standardisation and aggregation of EMIR data in Europe: six trade repositories and 28 countries" (paper) (presentation)
Alejandro Gaytán, Roberto Toledo and Alejandra Mejía (Bank of Mexico), "Derivatives data at the Banco de México: Its structure and uses" (paper) (presentation)
Erik Heitfield (Federal Reserve Board), "Systemic risk monitoring and prudential supervision" (paper) and "OTC derivatives trade repository data: opportunities and challenges" (presentation)

Discussant:

Chair: Seung Hwan Park (Bank of Korea)

Papers:

Christian Dembiermont (Bank for International Settlements), "General government debt: a quick way to improve comparability" (paper) (presentation)
Joanilson de Carvalho Santos (Central Bank of Brazil), "General government gross debt in Brazil: methodological issues regarding government securities held by the central bank" (paper) (presentation)
Jooyung Lee (Bank of Korea), "Korea's experience in compiling public sector debt statistics" (paper) (presentation)
João Cadete de Matos, Sérgio Branco and Filipe Morais (Bank of Portugal), "Conceptual issues related to the definition of government debt" (paper) (presentation)

Discussant:

Chair: Masahiro Higo (Bank of Japan)

Papers:

Katherine Hennings and Camila Maia Carneiro Costa (Central Bank of Brazil), "The use of surveys to improve statistics in central bank of Brazil: the measurement of foreign investment in Brazil and Brazilian investment abroad" (abstract) (presentation)
Sébastien Pérez-Duarte (European Central Bank), "Contrasting two eurosystem surveys of households and firms: from micro to macro, from short term to long term, from the phone to your door" (abstract) (presentation)
Masahiro Higo (Bank of Japan), "The use of surveys by central banks: brief introduction" (presentation)
Lori Rennison (Bank of Canada), Farid Novin (University of British Columbia) and Matthieu Verstraete (Bank of Canada), "Firm strategy, competitiveness and productivity: the case of Canada" (paper)
Kyosuke Shiotani (Bank of Japan), "Revision in the sample design of TANKAN using the economic census of Japan" (paper) (presentation)
Timur Hülagü and Erdi Kizilkaya (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey), "Turkish survey of expectations: methodological changes and sample fixing" (paper) (presentation)

Discussant:

Bruno Tissot (Bank for International Settlements), "The use of surveys: what perspectives for central banks?" (presentation)

Chair: Gülbin Sahinbeyoglu (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)

Papers:

Pablo García Silva and Josué Pérez Toledo (Central Bank of Chile), "Financial sector accounts: the Chilean experience in their use for financial stability monitoring" (paper) (presentation)
Manuel Rupprecht (Deutsche Bundesbank), "Who-to-whom information in German financial accounts - compilation, challenges and its usefulness for monetary policy" (paper) (presentation)
Henning Ahnert and Gabriel Quirós (European Central Bank), "Sectoral accounts for the euro area improving contents and communication" (paper) (presentation)
Béla Simon (Magyar Nemzeti Bank), "Developments related to the methodological changeover in the financial accounts" (paper) (presentation)
Masahiro Higo, Naoto Osawa and Yoshiko Sato (Bank of Japan) "Implications of 2008 SNA recommendations for the measurement of households' income and savings" (paper) (presentation)
Manuel Sánchez Valadez (Bank of Mexico), "Improving sectorial accounts of non-financial societies using micro-data on credit" (paper) (presentation)
Erik Bieleveldt and Pim Claassen (De Nederlandsche Bank), "Integrating balance of payments and sectoral accounts in the Netherlands" (paper) (presentation)

Discussant:

Chair: Aurel Schubert (European Central Bank)

Papers:

Johannes Turner and Guenther Sedlacek (Oesterreichische Nationalbank), "European reporting framework - a possible solution to reporting challenges for banks" (paper) (presentation)
Markus Amann and David Buckmann (Deutsche Bundesbank) and Maciej Anacki and and Isabel Lavrador (European Central Bank), "Securities Holdings Statistics Database (SHSDB): the new ESCB micro database on holdings of securities" (paper) (presentation)
Alejandro Gaytán González and Manuel Sanchez Valadez (Bank of Mexico), "Uses and classification of financial information: a map for new requirements" (paper)
Joseph Nichols (Federal Reserve Board), "Using confidential supervisory data for supervisory monitoring, internal analysis and external research" (paper) (presentation)

Discussants:

CPS 185: Hanna Augustyniak, Robert Leszczyński, Jacek Łaszek, Krzysztof Olszewski and Joanna Waszczuk (Narodowy Bank Polski), "On the dynamics of the primary housing market and the forecasting of house prices" (paper)
CPS 424: Timur Hülagü, Erdi Kizilkaya, Ali Gencay Özbekler and Pınar Tunar (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey), "A hedonic house price index for Turkey" (paper), "Is there a housing bubble or a quality boom in Turkey? Evidence from hedonic price adjustment" (presentation)
CPS 432: Christian Dembiermont (Bank for International Settlements), "Measuring property prices: the BIS contribution" (paper)
CPS 434: Ricardo Flores and Josué Pérez (Central Bank of Chile), "The housing price index for Chile: methodology and results" (paper) (presentation)

Christian Dembiermont (Bank for International Settlements), "Commercial property prices collection and usages at the BIS" (abstract) (presentation)

Bruno Tissot (Bank for International Settlements), "Statistical challenges related to financial inclusion" (paper) (presentation)