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| Central Bank Researchers Network of the Americas In a constant globalization era, central banks of the American Continent face similar concerns, issues, and problems. Among many others, topics such as transmission mechanisms for monetary policies; banking sector financial liberalization; optimum response evaluation within a frame of increasing competition between the financial and banking sectors; monetary, credit, and financial regulation and supervision policies effectiveness; chain effects among the region; interest rate and exchange rate determinants evaluation in economies that procure an internationalization of their activities; market risk estimation and regulation; suitable policies for the privatization of companies related to banking and financial sectors; etc. The optimum solution of these problems requires a high-quality, active and systematic research. Here is where the experience shared with other researchers in the region adopts a unique and valuable character as for the benefits of their effort to acquaint efficient solutions through the collaboration of other researchers would be enhanced. Central banks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, along with Federal Reserve System and the Bank of Canada representatives, participated in the constituting session for the Central Bank Researchers Network of the Americas (Network) held in Mexico City on October 17, 1996. The Network is constituted to favor the expansion of direct periodical contacts among the research departments of central banks of the region and the rest of the academic, banking, and professional community with the purpose of sharing experiences about top priority topics for central banks.
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