Established by the HKMA in August 1999, the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) has been carrying out research in the fields of monetary policy, banking and finance that are of strategic importance to Hong Kong and the Asia region. With the establishment of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance (AoF) in June 2019, the HKIMR becomes a subsidiary of the AoF and expands its monetary and financial economic research to cover also Applied Finance Research and Thought Leadership.
Its website contains a series of Working Papers, Occasional Papers, Applied Research Reports and Papers. The latter are originated from the applied research and thought leadership activities.