The conference will focus on recent challenges for macroeconomic policies and structural reform design, with an emphasis on micro-macro linkages. Issues of particular interest include the links between international trade and competitiveness, the implications of dispersed productivity growth,...

The reform process triggered by the recent financial crisis is gradually making progress. Advances are underway in the area of banking regulation, accounting standards, and market infrastructure (e.g. clearing houses for derivatives, etc.). A new framework for macroprudential policy is also...

The topic of the third meeting will be “Foreign Exchange Reserves and the International Monetary System: Management, Cooperation, and Stability”. We are interested in submissions that promise to develop new historical information with the potential for challenging existing views and...