Welcome to IMF Economic Review
The International Monetary Fund has announced that its official research journal, IMF Staff Papers, will be succeeded in mid-2010 by a new significantly enhanced and redesigned research publication - IMF Economic Review.
IMF Economic Review is dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed, high-quality, academic research on open economy macroeconomics. It aspires to publish the leading academic research and authors in the field. Given the IMF's unique position, this journal will be required reading for everyone interested in questions related to global economic policies, open economy macroeconomics, and international finance and trade.
IMF Economic Review:
ISSN: 2041-4161 (print);
ISSN: 2041-417X (online)
A 2010 subscription will comprise four issues: two issues of IMF Staff Papers (Volume 57, issues 1-2); followed by the first two issues of IMF Economic Review (Volume 58, issues 1-2).
Editor: Pierre Olivier Gourinchas, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Introduction
- “To navigate the global crisis, and to take the best policy decisions, will require mobilizing and extending the knowledge we have about open economy macro, from the implications of liquidity traps, to the dangers of large fiscal deficits, to macro-financial interactions, to the contours of a better international monetary and financial system. My hope and my expectation is that the IMF Economic Review will be central to the effort.”
- Olivier J. Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department, IMF
IMF Economic Review will emphasize rigorous analysis with an empirical orientation that is of interest to a broad audience, including academics and policymakers. Studies that borrow from, and interact with, other fields such as finance, international trade, political economy, labour, economic history or development will also be welcome.
The journal has a new high caliber editorial team. It will be led by Editor, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Gourinchas, a leading talent in macroeconomic and financial research, was awarded the 2007 Bernàcer Prize for the best European economist working in macroeconomics and finance under the age of 40.
The new Editorial Board includes distinguished researchers from academia and the IMF.
News
IMF Survey, an online magazine providing news and analysis about the IMF's work, recently published a story about IMF Economic Review and the new journal's initial contributions.
IMF Economic Review Podcast
Listen to Editor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas being interviewed about IMF Economic Review by the IMF's Chief of Internal Communication, Archana Kumar, at the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC, August 19, 2009.
IMF Economic Review Interview (Audio mpP3 file 6.18MB)
Read our press release announcing the launch of IMF Economic Review.
Press release (PDF, 30KB)
The first two issues of IMF Economic Review will include outstanding contributions from leading authorities in the field. Some of these papers will be presented at the prestigious Annual IMF Jacques Polak Research Conference on “Financial Frictions and Macroeconomic Adjustment” in November 2009. Others will be presented at the “Economic Linkages, Spillovers and the Financial Crisis” conference organized by the IMF Research Department, the Banque de France and the Paris School of Economics in January 2010.
