Tenth Annual Jacques Polak Research Conference to be Held in November

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The International Monetary Fund will hold the Tenth Annual Jacques Polak Research Conference at its headquarters in Washington on November 5-6, 2009. The theme of the event will be "Financial Frictions and Macroeconomic Adjustment."

The conference provides a forum to discuss innovative research in economics undertaken by IMF staff and outside economists, and facilitates the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. Ricardo Caballero will deliver this year's Mundell-Fleming lecture.

The conference program includes contributions from Viral Acharya, Tobias Adrian, Lucian Bebchuk, Effi Benmelech, Nittai Bergman, Itay Goldstein, Zhiguo He, Kamil Herman, Deniz Igan, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Wenli Li, Atif Mian, Prachi Mishra, Thomas Philippon, Philipp Schnabl, Hyun Shin...