IMF to Launch New Research Journal

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The International Monetary Fund has announced the launch of a new research publication entitled IMF Economic Review. The first issue will be published in mid-2010.

IMF Economic Review will succeed the Fund's current official research journal, IMF Staff Papers. The new journal will be dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed, high-quality, academic research by leading authors on such topics as global economic policies, open economy macroeconomics, and international finance and trade.

"To navigate the global crisis, and to take the best policy decisions, will require mobilizing and extending the knowledge we have about open economy macro, from the implications of liquidity traps, to the dangers of large fiscal deficits, to macro-financial interactions, to the contours of a better international monetary and financial system," commented Olivier J. Blanchard, IMF Economic Counsellor and Research Department Director. "My hope and my expectation is that the IMF Economic Review will be central to the effort."

IMF Economic Review will emphasize rigorous analysis with an empirical orientation that is of interest to a broad audience, including academics and policymakers. Studies will borrow from, and interact with, other fields such as finance, international trade, political economy, labor, and economic history and development.

The journal has a high-caliber editorial team led by newly-appointed editor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor of Economics at the University of California...