Michael Mussa, Former IMF Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department
Michael Mussa,
Former IMF Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department


Last updated: September 2005
Volume 52, Special Issue
IMF Staff Papers

This special issue for 2005 collects 10 papers presented at the IMF Conference in Honor of Michael Mussa (MussaFest) in June 2004, which includes opening remarks to the conference attendees by IMF Deputy Managing Director Agustín Carstens.



 Contents   

IMF Conference in Honor of Michael Mussa: MussaFest—Opening Remarks
Agustín Carstens

Reconsidering Expectations of Economic Growth After World War II from the Perspective of 2004
Robert W. Fogel

On the Accuracy of Some Past and Present Forecast
Stanley Engerman

Growth and Volatility in an Era of Globalization
M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar S. Prasad, and Marco E. Terrones

The Mussa Theorem (and Other Results on IMF-Induced Moral Hazard)
Olivier Jeanne and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Country Insurance
Tito Cordella and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

U.S. Trade Policy and the Adjustment Process
Chad P. Bown and Rachel McCulloch

Exchange Rate Regimes: Does What Countries Say Matter?
Hans Genberg and Alexander K. Swoboda

The 35 Most Tumultuous Years in Monetary History: Shocks, the Transfer Problem, and Financial Trauma
Robert Z. Aliber

Mundell's International Economics: Adaptations and Debates
Russell S. Boyer and Warren Young