Transcript of IMF Press Briefing
October 27, 2016
MR. RICE: Okay. Well, good morning, everyone. And welcome to this briefing on behalf of the IMF. I'm Gerry Rice of the Communications Department.
As usual, our briefing this morning will be embargoed until 10:30 a.m., and that is Washington, D.C. Time. Also, as usual, I begin with a few announcements then come to questions in the room, and take a few online as well.
So, on the announcements, Managing Director Christine Lagarde will make the Opening Remarks at the Seventeenth Annual Jacques Polak Research Conference here at the Fund. The theme of this year's conference is macroeconomics after the great recession. It will be open to the public and to the media over the two days, beginning November 3rd and the 4th.
What's special about this year's conference, which I know is familiar to many of you, but what's special about this year is, it will honor Olivier Blanchard's contributions to economic research and policy. Olivier, as I think most of you know, was our chief economist and director of Research here at the IMF for a number of years. And we are absolutely delighted to be able to honor Olivier in this way.
So, Christine Lagarde will speak; David Lipton, our First Deputy Managing Director, will also in fact chair two panels; and Larry Summers will give the Mundell-Fleming Lecture, which is part of this overall Polak, Jacques Polak Conference. So, Larry will do that on November 3rd.
And Olivier himself will participate also in a panel with Stanley Fischer of the Fed, also well known to you, a former colleague here at the IMF. Others, Kristin Forbes of MIT; Federico Sturzenegger, President of the Central Bank of Argentina, and other stars of the economic world will all be here for that Jacques Polak Conference on November the 3rd and 4th, and you are all welcome to attend.