Dr. Erlend Nier is Deputy Division Chief of the Monetary and Macroprudential Policies Division within the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department. In this position Mr. Nier has been leading the Fund's policy development in the area of macroprudential policy. He is a lead author of the IMF's "Key Aspects of Macroprudential Policy" and more recently led the production of the "Staff Guidance Note on Macroprudential Policy," which covers further issues for the Fund's advice on macroprudential policy, such as when and how to use macroprudential policy tools, and how such advice can take account of country-specific circumstances.
