Sydney J. Key

Sydney J. Key retired from the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of International Finance in Washington, D.C., in 2006.  In the 103rd U.S. Congress (1993-94), she was Staff Director of the Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy of the House Banking Committee.  In 1990-91, she was a National Expert in the European Commission's Internal Market Directorate-General. Dr. Key has had a longstanding association with the Morin Center as one of the instructors in the original International Banking Structure and Regulation II (1988-2000); she subsequently taught the International Banking Structure and Regulation Seminar (2006).  Dr. Key has also been a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, an Adjunct Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and an Academic Visitor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics. Dr. Key is the author of numerous articles and studies dealing with international trade in financial services, international financial regulation, and the EU single market for financial services.  Her book The Doha Round and Financial Services Negotiations was published in 2003 (AEI Press).  She teaches International Economic Institutions.

Education

A.B., magna cum laude in economics, Harvard University
A.M., Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University

Publications

“Financial Services,” in The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis, Arthur Appleton, Patrick Macrory, and Michael Plummer, eds. (Springer, 2005). 

The Doha Round and Financial Services Negotiations (AEI Press, 2003).

“Trade liberalization and prudential regulation: the international framework for financial services,” 75 International Affairs ­61 (1999).

Financial Services in the Uruguay Round and the WTO (Occasional Paper 54, Group of Thirty, 1997).

“Comment on ‘Policy Options for Prudential Supervision in Stage Three of Monetary Union’ by Johannes Priesemann,” in Banking, International Capital Flows and Growth in Europe, Paul J.J. Welfens and Holger C. Wolf, eds. (Springer-Verlag, 1997).

“Financial Services in the Uruguay Round,” in International Finance: Transactions, Policy, and Regulation (3rd ed.), Hal S. Scott and Philip A. Wellons (Foundation Press, 1996).

“Deposit-Guarantee Directive,” in Banking and EC Law: Commentary, Martijn van Empel and René Smits, eds. (Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1994).  

Deposit-Protection Schemes: Issues for an EC Directive (Research Report 11, Centre for European Policy Studies, 1992).

International Trade in Banking Services: A Conceptual Framework, with Hal S. Scott (Occasional Paper 35, Group of Thirty, 1991).

“Comment on ‘Liberalization and Regulation in the Process of Financial Market Integration in the European Community’by Franco Reither,” in European Monetary Integration: From German Dominance to an EC Central Bank?, Paul J.J. Welfens, ed. (Springer-Verlag, 1991).

“Is National Treatment Still Viable?  U.S. Policy in Theory and Practice,” 5 Journal of International Banking Law  365 (1990).

“Mutual Recognition: Integration of the Financial Sector in the European Community,” 75 Federal Reserve Bulletin  591 (1989).

Financial Integration in the European Community (International Finance Discussion Paper 349, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1989).

“The Development of International Banking Facilities,” with Henry S. Terrell, in International Banking and Financial Centers, Yoon S. Park and Musa Essayyad, eds. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989).