Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events

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IMF Research Bulletin

Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events

Research Conference

“Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses”

September 14, 2012

The IMF over the years has analyzed extensively the causes and consequences of financial crises. Many lessons have been

extracted from past experiences, including from the most recent episode. Despite significant advances in our knowledge

on the causes of crises, their aftermath, and policy responses, these issues remain topics of great policy relevance. The

quest for knowledge on the best policy responses to financial crises is an ongoing task. The conference on Financial Cri-

ses: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses to be held at IMF Headquarters will review lessons on the antecedents

of financial crises, the policy responses—in terms of bank, households, financial institutions and sovereign restructurings

and their aftermath. The keynote address of the conference will be delivered by Carmen Reinhart (Peterson Institute for

International Economics). The policy panel will feature presentations by Jose De Gregorio (Universidad de Chile), Hyun Shin

(Princeton University), and Alan Taylor (University of Virginia). The contributions by the conference participants, together

with a selection of research pieces on financial crises by IMF staff, will be published in a book.

For further information on the conference program, please visit http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2012/

fincrises/index.htm

Thirteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference

“Labor Markets through the Lens of the Great Recession”

November 8-9, 2012

The International Monetary Fund will hold the Thirteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference at its headquar-

ters in Washington, DC on November 8–9, 2012. The conference promises to be an exciting opportunity to discuss

topical policy issues related to unemployment and labor markets.

The ARC Program Committee has lined up an excellent set of papers for the conference from Laurence Ball (Johns Hop-

kins University), Daniel Leigh (IMF) and Prakash Loungani (IMF); Tito Boeri (Bocconi University), Pietro Garibaldi (Colle-

gio Carlo Alberto) and Espen Moen (Norwegian Business School); Michael Burda (Humboldt University of Berlin); Olivier

Coibion (University of Texas, Austin), Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley), Lorenz Kueng (University

of California, Berkeley) and John Silva (Wells Fargo); Ángel Estrada (Bank of Spain), Jordi Gali (CREI) and David Lopéz-

Salido (Federal Reserve Board); Teresa Fort (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth), John Haltiwanger (University of

Maryland), Ron S. Jarmin (Bureau of the Census) and Javier Miranda (Bureau of the Census); Shigeru Fujita (Federal

Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) and Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University); Kyle F. Herkenhoff (UCL A) and Lee E. Ohanian

(UCLA); Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) and Ay

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Andrei A. Levchenko (University of Michigan) and Jing Zhang (University of Michigan); and Thomas Piketty (Paris School

of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (University of California at Berkeley).

Peter Diamond (MIT) will deliver the Mundell-Fleming Lecture.

For further information on the program and details on how to register for the conference, please visit the IMF website

(www.imf.org) or email ARC@imf.org.