Abstract
IMF research summaries on measures of financial integration (by Martin Schindler) and on sovereign wealth funds and financial stability (by Tao Sun and Heiko Hesse); regional study on cross-border labor flows in new European Union member states (by Rudolfs Bems); listing of contents of Vol. 56 No. 1 of IMF Staff Papers, a special issue on frontiers of research on financial globalization; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during December 2008–March 2009; and a listing of recent IMF Working Papers.
IMF Research Bulletin
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Visiting Scholars, December 2008–March 2009
Senay Agca; George Washington University; 11/10/08–11/28/08
Pierpaolo Benigno; Luiss Guido Carli, Italy; 12/4/08–12/5/08
Menzie Chinn; University of Wisconsin; 1/15/09–2/27/09
Francis Xavier Diebold III; University of Pennsylvania; 12/10/08–12/10/08
Antonio Fatas; INSEAD; 12/1/08–4/30/09
Jordi Gali; CREI, Spain; 1/20/09–4/30/09
Andrea Gerali; Bank of Italy; 1/8/09–1/28/09
Don Harding; Latrobe University; 1/12/09–1/13/09
Jean Imbs; University of Lausanne, Switzerland; 12/15/08–12/19/08
Lakshmi Iyer; Harvard Business School; 1/12/09–1/16/09
Michel Juillard; Bank of France and CEPREMAP; 1/5/09–1/9/09
Lutz Kilian; University of Michigan; 12/11/08–12/12/08
John Muellbauer; Oxford University; 1/12/09–1/16/09
Kenneth Singleton; Stanford Graduate School of Business; 12/2/08–12/4/08