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Jonathan D. Ostry

Jonathan D. Ostry is Deputy Director of the IMF’s Research Department. In his current position, he oversees policy and research work related to the IMF-FSB Early Warning Exercise, vulnerabilities exercises for advanced and emerging market countries, multilateral exchange rate surveillance, and issues related to the international financial architecture. Past positions include leading the division that produces the IMF’s flagship multilateral surveillance publication, the World Economic Outlook, and leading country teams on Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore. He is the author/editor of numerous books on international macro policy issues and articles in scholarly journals.

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Thomas Grennes is a professor of economics at the North Carolina State University and a former visiting faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. His research has dealt with various aspects of international economics, including open economy macroeconomics, international finance, and international trade in agricultural products. Recent research topics have included macroeconomic aspects of the Great Moderation, offshore outsourcing, sovereign wealth funds, and the relationship between government debt and economic growth. Earlier work dealt with emerging market issues in the Baltic countries and Russia and trade and macro policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic history topics include the Columbian Exchange of plants and animals, the effects on food markets of introducing mechanical refrigeration, and the integration of Tsarist Russia into the world grain market. When he is not involved in economics, he enjoys mountain hiking.

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