Announcement is here.
Author: Philip Lane
The report is available here.
The articles by Joe Stiglitz and Martin Wolf on the IMF’s surveillance role are also interesting.
In a new initiative, the ESRI is running a series of half-day conferences on emerging from the crisis, with the first event focusing on productivity and growth. The first event takes place on November 9th and the details are here.
The conclusion of the EU Summit this morning marks one more stage in the evolution of this crisis (comments please!). The longer-term dynamic for the crisis was extensively discussed in Tuesday’s Policy Institute/IIIS roundtable event. The presentations are below (audio/video coming soon)
You can tune in to today’s IMF conference on Iceland here.
One of the speakers is Jon Danielsson. He has posted two articles on VOXEU, in which he argues that the recovery process in Iceland is far from complete and that the crisis response was not optimal. The bank-sector article is here; the overview on the IMF programme is here.