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 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...

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Topics: - Sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and private equity ¨ The effect of governmental and non-governmental institutions on public policy, financial markets, and business strategy ¨ Design and impact of capital market institutions and securities exchanges ¨ Institutional investing ¨...

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,...

The conference brings together leading academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the European regulatory framework in light of the recent events in the credit markets and the banking system. The purpose is to get a better understanding of the future development of the European...

The conference aims to provide a forum for discussing theoretical and empirical research on the causes and consequences of structural reforms—especially in terms of their effect on growth, macroeconomic stability, and resilience to shocks. The aim is to cover structural reforms very broadly,...

This year's theme is Globalization and Systemic Risk and will address the current landscape of cross-border banking activity, how systemic risk may be enhanced or contained by globalization, the potential sources of systemic risk (particularly banks, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge...