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June 2013

IMF Economic Review

“IMF Economic Review is devoted to state-of-the-art res earch on the global economy. Given the Fund’s unique position on

the front lines of survei llance and crisis management, anyone interested i n international economic policy or in macroeconom-

ics more generally wil l nd this journal to be essentia l reading.”

—Maurice Obstfeld , Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berk eley

Featured Articles

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Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countr ies

By Andrew Berg, Rafael Port illo, Shu-Chun S. Yang and Luis-Felipe Zanna

Optimal Dev aluations

By Constantino Hevi a and Juan Pablo Nicolini

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Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference

“Crises: Yesterday and Today”

November 7–8, 2013

The International Monetary Fund will hold the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference at its head-

quarters in Washington, DC on November 7–8, 2013. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Crises: Yesterday and

Today.” The conference will honor Stanley Fischer’s contributions to economic research and policy on the occasion of

his 70th birthday.

The conference program will feature an outstanding group of speakers. Paul Krugman (Princeton University) will

deliver the Mundell-Fleming Lecture. The program will also include papers by Viral V. Acharya and Bruce Tuckman;

Roberto Alvarez and José De Gregorio; Ariel Burstein and Iván Werning; Anusha Chari and Peter Blair Henry; William

English and David López-Salido; Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning; Kristin Forbes; Atish R. Ghosh, Jonathan D. Ostry,

and Mahvash S. Qureshi; Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap; Kenneth N. Kuttner and Adam S. Posen; Maurice Obstfeld;

David Reifschneider, William L. Wascher, and David W. Wilcox; and Carlos A. Vegh and Guillermo J. Vuletin. The list

of discussants will include Ricardo Caballero, Guy Debelle, Martin Feldstein, Jeffrey Frankel, Ilan Goldfajn, Gregory

Mankiw, Frederic Mishkin, Carmen Reinhar t, Christina Romer, David Romer, and Jeffrey Sachs.

Further information on the conference program will be posted on the IMF website: www.imf.org