It has been two years since the trade tensions erupted and not only captured policymakers' but also the research community's attention. Research has quickly zoomed in on understanding trade war rhetoric, tariff implementation, and economic impacts. The first article in the December 2019 issue...

The December issue of the Research Bulletin looks at 'Seven Questions about Climate Change' (Rabah Arezki and Akito Matsumoto). The Research Summaries review 'Winning the Oil Lottery: The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth' (Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata, and Frederik Toscani)...

The IMF Research Bulletin includes listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Discussion Notes. The research summaries in this issue are 'Explaining the Recent Slump in Investment' (Mathieu Bussiere, Laurent Ferrara, and Juliana Milovich) and 'The Quest for Stability in the Housing Markets'...

In the June 2016 issue of IMF Research Bulletin, Eugenio Cerutti interviews Lars E.O. Svensson. Lars, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, was a Visiting Scholar at the IMF. In the interview, he discusses monetary policy, financial stability, and life at the IMF. The Bulletin also...

The September 2016 issue of the IMF Research Bulletin includes the following two Research Summaries: 'A New Look at Bank Capital' (by Jihad Dagher, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Luc Laeven, Lev Ratnovski, and Hui Tong) and 'Does Growth Create Jobs? Evidence for Advance and Developing Economies (by...

The Research Summaries in this issue of the IMF Research Bulletin cover 'Tax Capacity and Growth' (by Vitor Gaspar, Laura Jaramillo, and Philippe Wingender), and 'U.S. Shale Revolution and Its Spillover Effects on the Global Economy' (Ravi Balakrishnan, Keiko Honjo, Akito Matsumoto, and Andrea...

This issue of the IMF Research Bulletin features recommended readings from IMF Publications and an update on recent IMF Working Papers and IMF Staff Discussion Notes. It also includes a special announcement welcoming Linda Tesar (University of Michigan) as the new editor of 'IMF Economic...

The Summer 2017 issue of the IMF Research Bulletin highlights new research such as recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Discussion Notes. The Research Summaries are 'Structural Reform Packages, Sequencing, and the Informal Economy (by Zsuzsa Munkacsi and Magnus Saxegaard) and 'A Broken Social...

The Fall 2017 IMF Research Bulletin includes a Q and A article covering "Seven Questions on the Globalization of Farmland" by Christian Bogmans. The first research summary, by Manmohan Singh and Haobing Wang is "Central Bank Balance Sheet Policies: Some Policy Implications." The second research...

IMF Research Perspective (formerly published as IMF Research Bulletin) is a new, redesigned online newsletter covering updates on IMF research. In the inaugural issue of the newsletter, Hites Ahir interviews Valeria Cerra; and they discuss the economic environment 10 years after the global...