In the wake of the crisis : leading economists reassess economic policy / edited by Olivier J. Blanchard [and others].

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Monetary policy -- Questions: how should the crisis affect our views of monetary policy? -- Monetary policy in the wake of the crisis / Olivier Blanchard -- Conventional wisdom challenged? Monetary policy after the crisis / Guillermo Ortiz -- Lessons for monetary policy / Otmar Issing -- Macroeconomics, monetary policy, and the crisis / Joseph Stiglitz -- Fiscal policy -- Questions: how should the crisis affect our views of fiscal policy? -- Fiscal stimuli and consolidation / Parthasarathi Shome -- What have we learned about fiscal policy from the crisis? / David Romer -- Fiscal policy responses to economic crisis / Sri Mulyani Indrawati -- Fiscal policy / Robert Solow -- Financial intermediation and regulation -- Questions: how should the crisis affect our views about financial intermediation and regulation? -- Financial crisis and financial intermediation: asking different questions / Y.V. Reddy -- Global liquidity / Hyun Song Shin -- Optimal financial intermediation: why more isn't always better / Adair Turner -- Process, responsibility, and Myron's law / Paul Romer -- Capital-account management -- Questions: how should the crisis affect our views of capital-account management? -- Notes on capital-account management / Ricardo Caballero.

Remarks on capital-account management and other macropolicy topics / Arminio Fraga -- Capital-account management: key issues / Rakesh Mohan -- The case for regulating cross-border capital flows / José Antonio Ocampo -- Growth strategies -- Questions: how should the crisis affect our views of growth and growth strategies? -- Do we need to rethink growth policies / Dani Rodrik -- Is the Chinese growth model replicable? / Andrew Sheng -- Growth in the post-crisis world / Michael Spence -- The international monetary system -- Questions: how should the crisis affect our views of the international monetary system? -- The implication of cross-border banking and foreign currency swap lines for the international monetary system / Már Guðmundsson -- The international monetary system / Olivier Jeanne -- International monetary system reform : a practical agenda / Charles Collyns -- Liquidity and the international monetary system / Maurice Obstfeld -- Concluding remarks / Olivier Blanchard.

Contains the findings and discussions from a 2011 International Monetary Fund conference on the post-crisis global economy.