Crises: Yesterday and Today

The International Monetary Fund will hold the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference at its headquarters in Washington DC on November 7-8, 2013.

The theme of this year's conference is “Crises: Yesterday and Today.” The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research on a wide range of issues on crises and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers.

This year’s conference will also honor Stanley Fischer’s contributions to economic research and policy. Fischer has extensively studied economic and financial crises, first as a faculty member at MIT, then as a policymaker, the Chief Economist of the World Bank, the First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, and the Governor of the Bank of Israel. The conference will bring together an outstanding array of economists and policymakers, many of whom studied, or worked in collaboration with Fischer. Paul Krugman (Princeton University) will deliver the Mundell-Fleming Lecture.

The deadline for public registration was Thursday, October 31, 2013. Registered attendees will be required to present photo identification on entering the IMF at 1900 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. For questions regarding the conference, please send an email to ARC@imf.org.

Please note that, for this event, invitations for visa purposes will be extended only to the conference participants.