Eighteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference “The Global Financial Cycle” - International Monetary Fund

The theme of this year’s conference is “The Global Financial Cycle.” The Program Committee welcomes empirical and theoretical studies on a wide range of issues related to the theme of the conference. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): - The global financial cycle and policy autonomy, - Exchange rates and the transmission of global financial shocks, - Linkages between financial, commodity, and business cycles, - The real and distributional impacts of global financial conditions, - Domestic financial stability and the global financial cycle, - Drivers and characteristics of global and domestic financial cycles, - Transmission channels and propagation mechanisms of global financial conditions, - The role of capital controls and prudential measures in taming the global financial cycle, - Global financial cycles in a historical context, - The role of the U.S. dollar and other key currencies in the global financial system, - International policy cooperation, and global governance of international financial and monetary relations.