Fabio Scacciavillani
Dr Fabio Scacciavillani holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and is Director of Macroeconomics and Statistics at the Dubai International Financial Center. Previously he held the position of Head of Economic Research at the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting in Doha, the GCC regional institution focusing on the economic diversification of member states. He has been Executive Director at Goldman Sachs International (2001–03), Senior Economist and Adviser in the Research Directorate of the European Central Bank (ECB) (1998–2001), and has held positions as an economist in various departments of the IMF (1992–98). He has also worked as a consultant for major corporate clients, financial institutions, hedge funds and the European Union.
Papers Published in World Economics:
The Institutional Framework of the Gulf Central Bank
This paper discusses the viable alternatives for a suitable institutional and governance framework for the policymaking body presiding over the GMU. The authors review a series of alternatives, from the simplest one (i.e. a governors’ council formed by the governors of the national central banks and monetary authorities, each endowed with a single equal vote), to the more elaborate ones, involving the set-up of a supranational institution, a Gulf Central Bank (GCB) with permanent staff, an appointed president and an executive board, which together with the national governors would form a monetary policy council (MPC) responsible for the setting of monetary policy instruments and taking decisions in all the main areas of monetary policy. The members of the MPC could be given equal voting rights, or voting power weighted according to the economic and financial size of each country, with some corrective counterweight mechanisms, such as a specific voting weight for the president and/or the executive board to provide checks and balances. The solution the authors feel markets (and the public) would find more credible and suitable would be one involving the creation of a new GCB with its own staff and an independent executive board, because it would strengthen the authority and sustainability of the institutional arrangement, and create an organisation that is an effective counterpart of the other major international central banks and financial markets.
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