BCRD and Central American Monetary Council hold forum

He Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD), in coordination with the Central American Monetary Council (CMCA), celebrated the “XVIII Forum of researchers from central banks“, with the aim of exchanging ideas of monetary policyforeign exchange and financial, as well as other studies related to topics of high importance for the region.

The governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD), Hector Valdez Albizu, highlighted that the forum international “is very useful to learn about experiences and exchange ideas monetary policyforeign exchange and financial, as well as other studies related to topics of high importance for the regionas are the relevant factors of the economic growthinflationary dynamics, current challenges for the monetary policythe determinants and impact of the remittances and the incidence of climatic phenomena for the region“.

The governor praised this space for debate as “of great benefit for the design and implementation of policies that contribute to the good macroeconomic performance of our countries. These sessions will contribute to strengthening the integration ties between our institutions.”

More than 20 prominent figures participated in person and virtually during the activity. experts of six central banks of the regionas well as the Bank of Spain, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and the banking superintendencies of Panama and Dominican Republic.

Among the program of exhibitions and debates, which took place from September 11 to 13 at the audience of the BCRDwere introduced research concerning macroeconomic causes and effects of the remittances and migratory flows, as well as the impact of external shocks on banking systems, the economic impact of climatic phenomena extremes and models for the analysis of economic policies, among others.

Albizu thanked the Executive SecretaryOdalis Marte, and all the staff of the executive secretariat of the CMCA for their presence and support in organizing the event “of great relevance for the monetary, exchange and financial policies of the different countries, as well as their macroeconomic performance.”

During the act of opening The governor was accompanied by the deputy manager of Monetary, Foreign Exchange and Financial Policies, Joel Tejeda; the economic advisor of the GovernmentJulio Andújar and the deputy manager of Monetary Programming and Economic Studies, Joel González.