Lectures on Various Other Topics

These presentations are posted here for the benefit of participants in IMF Institute courses and seminars.

IMF-Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF) Lectures, Kuwait City, Kuwait, January 2013.

Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Challenges in Natural Resource-Rich Countries

Lecture 2: Macroeconomic Challenges and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes in Resource-Rich Countries

Lecture 3: Case Studies of Macroeconomic Management in Resource-Rich Countries

Lecture 4: Lessons from Norway and Iceland

Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, Austria, November-December 2012.

Lecture 1: Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Regimes

Lecture 2: The Challenges of Capital Inflows Including Aid

Lecture 3: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, Austria, May 2012.

External Vulnerabilities and Sudden Stops: The Case of Iceland

IMF Institute/Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, Austria, April 2012.

Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Challenges in Natural Resource Rich Countries

Lecture 2: Dutch Disease, Volatility and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime in Resource Rich Countries

Lecture 3: Case Study: Macroeconomic Management in Natural Resource-Rich Countries

IMF Institute/Center for Excellence in Finance Lectures, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2011.

Lecture 1: Managing Capital Flows

Lecture 2: Exchange Rates and Competitiveness

Lecture 3: Fiscal Policy

Lecture 4: Currency and Banking Crises

Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, Austria, May 2011.

Lecture 1: Exchange Rates and Competitiveness

Lecture 2: Lessons from Past Financial Crises

IMF Institute/Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, Austria, January/February 2011.

Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Challenges for Natural Resource Rich Countries

Lecture 2: Dutch Disease, Volatility and Exchange Rate Regime in Resource Rich Countries

Lecture 3: Capital Account Liberalization and Crises

Lecture 4: Case Study: Natural Resource-Rich Countries

IMF Institute/Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, July 2009.

The following four presentations from an IMF course on Macroeconomic Management and Financial Sector Issues in Times of Crises are posted here for the benefit of participants in JVI courses and seminars.

Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Management and Fiscal Policy

Lecture 2: International Capital Flows

Lecture 3: Exchange Rate Regimes

Lecture 4: A Case Study of Iceland’s Financial Crisis

IMF Institute/Joint Africa Institute Lectures, Tunis, March 2009.

Lecture 1: Balance of Payments: Accounts and Analysis

Lecture 2: Relations Between the Balance of Payments and Other Macroeconomic Accounts

Lecture 3: Vulnerabilities Related to the Scaling Up of Aid and Other Capital Flows

Lecture 4: Capital Account Liberalization and Vulnerabilities -- What We Have Learned

IMF Institute Lectures, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2008.

Lecture 1 : Sources of Economic Growth (New version)

Lecture 2: Alternative Views of the IMF

Lecture 3: Macro Management of Aid Flows

IMF Institute/STI Lectures, Singapore, February 2008.

Lecture 1 : Sources of Growth (New version)

Lecture 2: External Sector Policies

Lecture 3: Monetary Accounts, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lecture 4: How Do India and China Grow?

IMF Institute Lectures, Pretoria, South Africa, June 2007.

Lecture 1 : Sources of Economic Growth (New version)

Lecture 2: Alternative Views of the IMF

Lecture 3: Macro Management of Aid Flows

IMF Institute Lectures, Washington, DC, August 2006.

Lecture 1: Sources of Growth

Lecture 2: Alternative Views of the IMF

IMF Institute/MEFMI Lectures, Lusaka, Zambia, April 2006.

Lecture 1: External Debt Management and the HIPCs

Lecture 2: Sources of Growth

Lecture 3: Exchange Rate Regimes and Policies

Lecture 4: Interrelations Among Macroeconomic Accounts

IMF Institute/Joint Africa Institute Lectures, Tunis, February-March 2006.

Lecture 1: Sources of Economic Growth

Lecture 2: Balance of Payments: Analysis and Forecasting

Lecture 3: External Sector Policies

Lecture 4: Monetary Accounts: Analysis and Forecasting

Lecture 5: Monetary Policy

IMF Institute Lectures, Pretoria, South Africa, June 2005.

Lecture 1: Sources of Economic Growth

Lecture 2: Monetary Policy in an Era of Globalization

IMF Institute/MEFMI Lectures, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 2005.

Lecture 1: Sources of Economic Growth

Lecture 2: Balance of Payments: Analysis and Forecasting

Lecture 3: External Sector Policies

Lecture 4: Monetary Accounts: Analysis and Forecasting

Lecture 5: Monetary Policy

IMF Institute/WAIFEM Lectures, Accra, Ghana, November 2004.

Lecture 1: Sources of Economic Growth

Lecture 2: Macroeconomic Stabilization and Structural Reform

Lecture 3: Monetary Accounts: Analysis and Forecasting

IMF Institute/East AFRITAC Lectures, Nairobi, Kenya, October 2004.

Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Stabilization and Structural Reform

Lecture 2: Sources of Economic Growth

Lecture 3: External Sector Policies

Lecture 4: Monetary Accounts: Analysis and Forecasting

Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, July 2004.

The following six presentations from an IMF course on Monetary Analysis and Policy are posted here for the benefit of participants in JVI courses and seminars.

Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Stabilization and Structural Reform

Lecture 2: Balance of Payments: Accounting and Analysis

Lecture 3: Sources of Growth

Lecture 4: Balance of Payments Forecasting

Lecture 5: International Capital Flows: Issues in Transition Economies

Lecture 6: Financial Programming: An Introduction

IMF Institute/East AFRITAC Lectures, Nairobi, Kenya, March 2004.

Lecture 1: Sources of Economic Growth

Lecture 2: Macroeconomic Stabilization and Structural Reform

Lecture 3: External Sector Policies

Lecture 4: Monetary Accounts: Analysis and Forecasting

Joint Africa Institute Lectures, Tunis, January-February 2004.

Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Adjustment and Structural Reform

Lecture 2: Sources of Economic Growth

Lecture 3: Exchange Rate Regimes and Policies

Lecture 4: Monetary Accounts: Analysis and Forecasting

Lecture 5: External Debt Management and the HIPCs

Joint Vienna Institute Lectures, Vienna, September 2002.

These presentations are posted here for the benefit of participants in JVI courses and seminars. Four of the five are revised and updated versions of presentations made at the September 2001 Seminar in Vienna.

Lecture 1: Openness and Growth

Lecture 2: International Capital Flows and Capital Account Liberalization

Lecture 3: International Economic Integration: Implications for National Economic Policies

Lecture 4: Balance of Payments Adjustment

Lecture 5: Experiences on the EU Periphery: Iceland and Norway