The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

In der öffentlichen Diskussion dominiert die Einschätzung, dass die Ungleichheit der Einkommen, Löhne und Vermögen in Deutschland und in Europa zunimmt. Der Ruf nach stärkeren Institutionen, strikteren Regulierungen und staatlichen Umverteilungsmaßnahmen zur Schließung dieser...

Topics: - Quantification of the Impact of Reform - Short- vs. Long-Term Effects of Reform - Product and Labor Market Reform - Financial Sector Reform - EU Convergence and Reforms - Reforms and the Functioning of EMU - Distributional Consequences of Reform - Timing, Sequencing, and Clustering of...

The theme for the conference is "Stabilizing Financial Systems for Growth and Full Employment". The 2014 Minsky Conference will address both financial reform and prosperity, drawing from Minsky’s work on financial instability and his proposal for achieving full employment. Panels will focus on...

Each Spring, thousands of government officials, the private sector, journalists, civil society representatives, and other interested observers gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. At the heart of the gathering are meetings of the IMF's International...

"This conference will address, among other issues, the challenge to global growth represented by the eurozone debt crisis; the impact of the credit crunch on the economic and financial markets outlook; the sustainability of the US economic recovery in the absence of support from monetary and...

The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research in economics, undertaken by both IMF staff and by outside economists, and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) will...

Die Weltwirtschaft durchlebt die schwerste Krise seit Jahrzehnten. Trotz eines dramatischen Wirtschaftseinbruchs hat der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt sich als erstaunlich robust erwiesen. Dies erklärt sich durch ein hohes Maß an betriebsinterner Flexibilität, die durch Regelungen zur Kurzarbeit...

Conference theme: "After the Crisis: Planning a New Financial Structure" The focus of the Institute's 19th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference will be post-recession exit strategies and the new financial architecture.

The subject of the conference is "Macro-Financial Linkages." Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): (1) the role of finance in transmitting and amplifying real shocks, including international spillovers; (2) the financial sector as a source of (international) disturbances,...