Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference

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IMF Research Bulletin

Working Paper 13/167

Evaluating the Net Benets of Macroprudential Policy:

A Cookbook

Nicolas Arregui; Jaromir Benes; Ivo Krznar; Srobona Mitra;

Andre Santos

Working Paper 13/168

Systemic Risk Monitoring (“SysMo”) Toolkit—A User Guide

Nicolas R. Blancher; Srobona Mitra; Hanan Morsy; Akira Otani;

Tiago Severo; Laura Valderrama

Working Paper 13/169

e Evolution of Current Account Decits in the Euro Area

Periphery and the Baltics: Many Paths to the Same Endpoint

Joong Shik Kang; Jay C. Shambaugh

Working Paper 13/170

Pressure or Prudence? Tales of Market Pressure and Fiscal

Adjustment

Salvatore Dell’Erba; Todd D. Mattina; Agustin Roitman

Working Paper 13/171

What Explains Movements in the Peso/Dollar Exchange Rate?

Yi Wu

Working Paper 13/172

Bank Resolution Costs, Depositor Preference, and Asset

Encumbrance

Daniel C. Hardy

Working Paper 13/173

Tax Administration Reform in the Francophone Countries of

Sub-Saharan Africa

Patrick Fossat; Michel Bua

Working Paper 13/174

Sudden Stops, Time Inconsistency, and the Duration of

Sovereign Debt

Juan Carlos Hatchondo; Leonardo Martinez

Working Paper 13/175

Financial Interconnectedness and Financial Sector Reforms in

the Caribbean

Sumiko Ogawa; Joonkyu Park; Diva Singh; Nita acker

Working Paper 13/176

Benchmarking Structural Transformation Across the World

Era Dabla-Norris; Alun H. omas; Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu;

Yingyuan Chen

Working Paper 13/177

HEAT! A Bank Health Assessment Tool

Li Lian Ong; Phakawa Jeasakul; Sarah Kwoh

Working Paper 13/178

Credibility and Crisis Stress Testing

Li Lian Ong; Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

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Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference: “Crises: Yesterday and Today”

November 7–8, 2013, Washington, DC

The International Monetary Fund will hold the Four teenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference at its headquarters in Washington,

DC, 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. (For a pro file on Stanley Fischer, please take

a look at the September issue of Finance & Development: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft /fandd/2013/09/people.htm.)

The conference program will feature an outstanding group of speakers. Paul Kr ugman (Princeton University) will deliver the Mundell-

Fleming Lecture. The program will 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, David López-Salido, and Robert Tetlow; Emmanuel

Farhi and Iván Werning; Kristin Forbes and Michael Klein; Atish R. Ghosh, Jonathan D. Ostr y, and Mahvash S. Qureshi; Takeo Hoshi

and Anil Kashyap; Kenneth N. Kuttner and Adam S. Po sen; Maurice Obstfeld; David Reifschneider, William L. Wascher, and David W.

Wilcox; and Carlos A. Végh and Guillermo J. Vuletin. The list of discussants will include Ricardo Caballero, Guy Debelle, Martin Feld-

stein, Jeffrey Frankel, Ilan Goldfajn, Gregory Mank iw, Frederic Mishkin, Carmen Reinhart, Christina Romer, David Romer, and Jeffrey

Sachs. The policy panel at the conference will feature Ben Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Stanley Fischer, and Kenneth Rogoff.

For additional information on the conference please visit the IMF website: www.imf.org