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 11th annual Darden International Finance Conference seeks to address international issues concerning risk. We expect both corporate finance and investments papers to be on the final program. Managing risk, be it political, financial regulatory, etc, is a major challenge to firms, market...

Possible sessions could include, but are not limited to, the following: - International capital flows - International portfolio allocation - International portfolio diversification - Global flight to quality - Liquidity and capital flows - Investing in emerging economies - Capital market...

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...

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 conference will provide a forum to present recent theoretical and empirical research narrowing the gap between "open-economy macro" and "finance" approaches to international financial issues. Topics: • Monetary policy and asset prices in an open economy • Policies for managing capital...

The theme of this year's conference is Exchange Rates. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): (1) exchange rates and global macroeconomic imbalances, including issues of exchange rate misalignment; (2) exchange rates and economic performance-growth and inflation-in the short and...