Current Policy Challenges Facing Emerging Markets 2019 | International Monetary Fund | 24 July 2019 | Central Bank of Chile, Agustinas 1180, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile

The Central Bank of Chile, the International Monetary Fund and the IMF Economic Review are organizing a joint conference on the “Current Policy Challenges Facing Emerging Markets". Rising trade barriers, weak commodity prices, the ongoing monetary policy normalization in advanced economies, and the increased volatility of world capital markets create a challenging global environment for emerging markets. These challenges are further complicated by domestic vulnerabilities in the public sector, financial intermediaries and the private sector. Against this background, the conference will feature an outstanding set of academic and policy sessions on the key policy challenges facing emerging market economic

2019 Speakers

Gita Gopinath
Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department, IMF

Guillermo Calvo
Columbia University

Kristin Forbes
MIT Sloan School of Management

Andrea Tokman
Quiñenco S.A.

Alejandro Werner
IMF

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Universidad del Desarrollo

Konstantin Egorov
New Economic School

Dmitry Mukhin
Yale University

Ricardo Reis
London School of Economics

Fabio Ghironi
University of Washington

Galip Kemal Ozhan
Bank of Canada

Javier García-Cicco
Central Bank of Argentina

Rudolfs Bems
IMF

Francesca Caselli
IMF

Bertrand Gruss
IMF

Petra Geraats
University of Cambridge

José de Gregorio
University of Chile

Gonzalo Asis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anusha Chari
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Adam Haas
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stephen Cecchetti
Brandeis International Business School

Isha Agarwal
Cornell University

Grace Weishi Gu
University of California, Santa Cruz

Eswar Prasad
Cornell University

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
IMF

Vittorio Corbo
Private Consultant

Ricardo Reyes-Heroles
Federal Reserve Board

Sharon Traiberman
New York University

Eva van Leemput
Federal Reserve Board

Sebastian Claro
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Weicheng Lian
IMF

Natalija Novta
IMF

Evgenia Pugacheva
IMF

Yannick Timmer
IMF

Petia Topalova
IMF

Pamela Medina
University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management

Maurice Obstfeld
University of California, Berkeley

Rodrigo Vergara
Centro de Estudios Públicos

Vincenzo Quadrini
USC Marshall School of Business

David Kohn
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Gaston Gelos
IMF

Rohit Goel
IMF

Lucyna Górnicka
IMF

Robin Koepke
IMF

Sheheryar Malik
IMF

Ratna Sahay
IMF

Silvia Sgherri
IMF

Luis Felipe Céspedes
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Charles W. Calomiris
Columbia Business School

Mauricio Larrain
Catholic University of Chile

Sergio L. Schmukler
World Bank

Tomas Williams
George Washington University

Giovanni Dell’Ariccia
IMF

Gianluca Benigno
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Alessandro Rebucci
Johns Hopkins University

Changhua Yu
Peking University

Sofia Bauducco
Central Bank of Chile

Kathryn M.E. Dominguez
University of Michigan

Eduardo Levy Yeyati
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Andrea Repetto
Adolfo Ibáñez University

Pablo D’Erasmo
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Hernán Moscoso Boedo
University of Cincinnati

María Pía Olivero
Drexel University

Máximo Sangiacomo
Central Bank of Argentina

Carlos Urrutia
Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México

Bryan Hardy
Bank for International Settlements

Felipe Saffie
University of Maryland

Victoria Nuguer
Inter-American Development