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Articles by Peter Knaack
Inclusive Green Finance for Small Companies: Learning from Pilot Cities in China’s Zheijiang Province
Upcoming: 16 April 2025 | 9.00 CET | Online | Co-hosted with AMRO Monetary, Webinar | Tags: China, Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Green Finance Co-hosted with AMRO, this webinar will examine a critical barrier to scaling up green finance for small companies: the high cost of green due diligence. Discussants will provide insights on how pilot zones in China’s Zhejiang province are addressing this challenge through innovative standards and digital information platforms.
Innovative Finance Solutions for Small Companies
| 27 March 2025 Monetary, Blog | Tags: China, Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Green Finance This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: Related Posts , and | 21 February 2025 Monetary, Discussion Notes | Tags: China, Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Green Finance Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are crucial for the transition to a sustainable economy.
China's Monetary Stimulus. Aggregate and structural implications.
| 13 February 2025 Monetary, Blog | Tags: Central Banks, China, Economic Growth, Financial Stability The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) convened its 2025 work conference in Beijing from 3 to 4 January, signaling a commitment to maintaining a supportive policy stance in the new year following key steps in this direction in 2024. September 2024 marked the introduction of a distinctive monetary stimulus package in China with additional instruments added to the toolkit.
Financial Regulation and Supervision in Switzerland - Looking Ahead
Upcoming: 22 May 2024 | Bern, Switzerland | By Invitation Monetary, Roundtables | Tags: Central Banks, Financial Governance, Financial Stability, Financial Supervision, Macroprudential Policy The events that shook the Swiss financial sector last year are a stark reminder of the potential vulnerabilities our financial systems face.
Financial Regulation and Supervision in China: Grappling with the Ups and Downs of the Property Market
and | 12 March 2024 Monetary, Policy Briefs | Tags: China, Financial Supervision, Housing DOWNLOAD POLICY BRIEF China’s financial supervisors have employed a unique set of tools to address financial risk emanating from a key sector of the economy: real estate. This policy brief provides an in-depth description of the prudential supervisory instruments they have used to lean against the boom-and-bust phases of a credit cycle centered around the real estate market in recent years.
Peter Knaack | CGAP
Peter Knaack is an Adjunct Professor at the School of International Service, American University, and an Associate at the Council on Economic Policies, a Swiss think tank. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford, and Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London. Peter has previously consulted for CGAP, with his research focusing on global financial governance.
Inclusive Green Finance: a New Agenda for Central Banks and Financial Supervisors
Ulrich Volz and Peter Knaack | 23 June 2023 Monetary, Policy Briefs | Tags: Financial Inclusion, Green Finance, Monetary Policy This policy brief was published by INSPIRE (The International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights, Research and Exchanges), as part of the Sustainable Central Banking Toolbox paper series.
Driving Digital Transformation - Lessons from Seven Developing Countries
Benno Ndulu (†), Elizabeth Stuart, Stefan Dercon and Peter Knaack | 27 April 2023 Books | Tags: Development, Digital Economy “Driving Digital Transformation – Lessons from Seven Developing Countries” (Oxford University Press, 2023) documents and critically assesses how seven developing countries made efforts to kick-start the digital transformation of government and economy.
Global Financial Networked Governance - The Power of the Financial Stability Board and its Limits
Peter Knaack | 27 March 2023 Books | Tags: Finance Stability, Governing Finance Global Financial Networked Governance – The Power of the Financial Stability Board and its Limits (Routledge, 2023) by CEP Associate Peter Knaack provides a careful analysis of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the standard-setters under its umbrella to show how such government networks harness the power of public reputation to herd their members into compliance.
Two Sessions 2023: Reforming China’s Financial Governance
Sebastian Guo and Peter Knaack | 22 March 2023 Blog, Monetary | Tags: China, Economic Growth, Financial Stability China aims to transition from a period of rapid economic growth to an economy that is geared towards high-quality development. Over the past years, the country has reformed the governance of its financial system to better serve its development path.
World Savings Day looks a lot different almost a 100 years later
When the tuxedo-clad and mustached attendants of the First International Thrift Congress in Milan in 1924 declared October 31st World Thrift Day, they associated savings with hand-written numbers in savings books, duly signed by clerks who would receive bank notes from customers over the wooden counter.
The costs and benefits of making pension funds a target for financial repression
Financial repression is not a new topic, but the striking amount of new debt taken on by governments to support their economies in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis has made the issue ever more relevant. Financial repression occurs when governments channel funds to themselves that in a deregulated market environment would go elsewhere. It usually aims to provide cheaper loans to companies and governments, reducing their burden of repayments by lowering returns to savers.
From shadow banking to digital financial inclusion: China’s rise and the politics of epistemic contestation within the financial stability board
Global financial standard-setting has been the exclusive domain of advanced economies for decades. Following the 2008–09 crisis, China and other emerging markets and developing economies obtained formal membership in the forums of global financial regulatory governance. Has their incorporation changed global regulatory politics?
Basel standards and developing countries
In today’s world of globalised finance, regulators in developing countries have to weigh up the international ramifications of their decisions. This column presents the results of a research project which combines cross-country panel analysis and in-depth case studies of the political economy of the adoption of Basel II/III in the developing world.
As China Reins in Capital, What Next for Global Trade?
China’s Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, are tightening controls on overseas spending by the country’s biggest companies and their highly visible billionaire CEOs. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Xi personally signed off on new rules barring state banks from lending to Dalian Wanda’s Wang Jianlin, curbing his years of recent ambitious acquisition plans in overseas real estate, international sports franchises, and Hollywood entertainment companies.
An Unlikely Champion of Global Finance: Why is China Exceeding International Banking Standards? - Peter Knaack, 2017
Introduction China's rise in recent years has triggered a lively debate on the impact of its emergence as a major power in the international system. Largely ostracised in the first post-war decades until the West changed course in the 1970s, the People's Republic is a relative newcomer to the institutions of global economic governance. Its integration into the global trade regime at the turn of the century has received much scholarly attention.
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