The conference will provide a forum for discussing innovative research on a wide range of topics relevant to the global economy and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. This year’s conference will honor Maurice Obstfeld’s contributions to economic research...

The Forum is a platform for policymakers, researchers, private sector, regulators and compilers of economic and financial data to come together to discuss cutting-edge issues in macroeconomic and financial statistics and to build support for statistical improvements. The theme of this year’s...

Session I: Definition and Scope of the Informal Economy; Session II: Traditional Estimation Practices: Determining the Level and Growth of the Informal Economy; Session III: New Technologies and New Potential Data Sources—Innovation and Big Data; Session IV: Measuring Informal Cross-border...

Every year, the Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference brings together economists from the academia, the public and the private sectors, think tanks, and other constituencies to discuss innovative research in economics and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and...

The Program Committee welcomes empirical and theoretical work on topics including, but not limited to: - International spillovers and cooperation in a historical context; - Spillovers in the post-crisis world; - International monetary cooperation at the zero lower bound; - “Currency wars”; -...

The forthcoming book from Oxford University Press and the IMF is designed to connect the multiple aspects of sovereign debt policy into one coherent text. It will be accessible to policymakers and practitioners and will combine economic theory and analysis with real world examples of how this...