Conference on “Structural Reforms Without Prejudice”

The International Monetary Fund, Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research will sponsor a conference on “Structural Reforms Without Prejudice” in Milan, Italy on March 2, 2009. The conference will provide a forum for researchers and policymakers to discuss theoretical and empirical research on the causes and consequences of structural reforms, and to examine innovative research on the impact of structural reforms on economic performance.

Those interested in submitting papers for the conference must complete a Call for Papers Reply Form by December 15, 2008. Those forms are available at http://www.cepr. org/R19728168849-2089821184344. Final versions of the papers selected for the conference will then be due by February 1, 2009.

Submissions should shed light on aspects of how structural reforms operate in practice, and how they interact with each other as well as with...