International Monetary Fund

Monetary and Macroprudential Policies:
Challenges and Solutions

IMF Economic Forum

Date: NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Time: 2:45–4:30pm

Venue: HQ2 Conference Hall 1
1900 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.

As the global economy is slowly recovering from the financial crisis, a number of questions take center stage of discussions about macroeconomic and financial policies. What are the optimal exit strategies from expansionary fiscal and monetary policies? How should monetary and financial policies be designed to mitigate adverse effects of asset price and credit booms? What types of policies are available for developed and emerging economies to cope with the global imbalances?

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Monetary and Macroprudential Policies: Challenges and Solutions
Moderated by
Olivier Blanchard OLIVIER BLANCHARD

Economic Counselor and Director of IMF Research Department

A citizen of France, Olivier Blanchard has spent his professional life in Cambridge, U.S. After obtaining his Ph.D in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, he taught at Harvard University, returning to MIT in 1982, where he has been since then.


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Featuring
Lewis Alexander LEWIS ALEXANDER

Nomura

Lewis Alexander leads Nomura’s economic research team covering the U.S. economy as the U.S. Chief Economist.


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Joe Gagnon JOSEPH E. GAGNON

Peterson Institute of International Economics

Joseph E. Gagnon, senior fellow since September 2009, was visiting associate director, Division of Monetary Affairs (2008–09) at the US Federal Reserve Board.


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Andrew Lo ANDREW LO

MIT

Andrew W. Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering.


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John Williams JOHN WILLIAMS

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Williams has been has been executive vice president and director of research at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank since 2009.


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Organizing Committee

Natalia Tamirisa (Chair), Emine Boz, Giovanni Favara, Ayhan Kose, Rafael Portillo and Lev Ratnovski (All IMF), and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Editor of the IMF Economic Review, University of California, Berkeley). Olivier Blanchard and Stijn Claessens provided general guidance.

Conference Coordinators:
Tracey Lookadoo and Sumit Aneja