About the Program
The Institute for Capacity Development’s Internal Economics Training (IET) program provides training over a wide range of topics that are relevant for IMF economists. The objective of the program is to ensure that Fund economists at all levels stay at the forefront of the profession and remain current on the major issues of the day.
The program consists of courses (which run from two to five days) and seminars (typically half-day events) on topics in econometrics, economic theory, finance, monetary and exchange rate policy, open-economy macroeconomics, political economy, public economics, and trade. The popularity of the program has elicited a rapid expansion in the number of courses and seminars offered since the program’s inception. The Institute consults with economists from across the Fund in choosing the topics to be covered as well as the speakers to be invited, and it seeks feedback from participants in all the courses and seminars. The range of topics covered has broadened significantly in recent years, reflecting the increasingly complex and rapidly evolving environment which Fund economists operate.
The Institute invites some of the best-known scholars in their fields to the Fund to conduct the courses and seminars. Among these are recent recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics, as well as the John Bates Clark Medal. Since 2000, country officials have also participated in selected week-long IET courses in various fields.
| Economics Training Program |
2020 Courses |
| Title | Lecturer |
| Integrated Inflation Targeting | Agenor,Pierre-Richard |
| Virtual Training - Social Safety Nets for Macroeconomists | Evans,Brooks Fox |
| Virtual Training - Making a Miracle: Diversification and Growth Policies | Hasanov,Fuad |
| Macroprudential Policy Modeling for Open Economies | Mendoza,Enrique |
| Virtual Training - New Developments in Fiscal Policy | Reis,Ricardo A.M.R. |
| Structural VARs and Dynamic Factor Models in Macroeconomics | Watson,Mark |
| Analyzing Trade and Trade Policy with the Structural Gravity Model and Applications | Yotov,Yoto V. |
| Economics Training Program |
2020 Seminars |
| Title | Lecturer |
| Virtual Training - The Political Economy of the Pandemic | Acemoglu,Daron |
| Open Forum - Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives | Anderson,Elizabeth |
| Virtual Training - Trade and GVCs During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic | Antras,Pol |
| Virtual Training - The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Pandemic | Barro,Robert |
| Virtual Training - Economic Outlook in the Face of COVID-19 and Potential Policy Responses | Blanchard,Olivier |
| Virtual Training - Central Banks Now and Later: Provision of Liquidity and Lifelines | Brunnermeier,Markus K. |
| Virtual Training - The Green Recovery from the Pandemic | Carney,Mark Joseph |
| Virtual Training - Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances in LMICs and FCS | Chami,Ralph |
| Causal Inference with High-Dimensional Data | Chernozhukov,Victor V. |
| Virtual Training - COVID-19 as a Reallocation Shock and Policies for Recovery | Davis,Steven J. |
| Virtual Training - Deaths of Despair and the Covid-19 Pandemic | Deaton,Angus |
| Virtual Training - Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? | Guerrieri,Veronica |
| Virtual Training - Restructuring Sovereign Debt | Hagan,Sean |
| Virtual Training - COVID-19 Vaccine Investment Strategy for Developing Countries | Kremer,Michael |
| Virtual Training - Toward the Recovery From the Pandemic | Krugman,Paul R. |
| The Evolving Market for Entrepreneurial Finance | Lerner,Josh |
| Virtual Training - The Epidemiologist's View: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ways Forward | Lipsitch,Marc |
| Virtual Training - Big Data Analytics: Alternative Approaches and a New Perspective | Pesaran,Hashem |
| Virtual Training - Suspending Debt Payments Amid the COVID-19 Shock and the Future Debt Relief | Reinhart,Carmen |
| Structural Change and the Labor Market | Rogerson,Richard |
| Virtual Training - Labor Markets, Unemployment, and u* | Sahin,Aysegul |
| Market Power and Concentration: Theory and Evidence | Syverson,Chad |
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