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The JRCPPF 15th Annual Conference: "Debt, Deficits & Global Imbalances" starts on Thursday, February 19, 2026, with a panel on credit cycles and financial crises, followed by a keynote with Kenneth Rogoff, who will discuss his new book, Our Dollar, Your Problem. The dinner (invitation only) celebrating the Center’s 15th Anniversary will feature remarks by current and former directors, as well as those who have supported the Center’s work. The conference continues on Friday, February 20, 2026, with a morning keynote by Michael Pettis on structural issues in global finance, and two panel sessions on sectoral credit and trade, and debt, inequality, and the dynamics of labor. The conference concludes with a closing keynote talk by Hyun Song Shin on cross-border flows and global financial conditions

Speakers include: Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), Alexandre Gaillard (Brown University), Julia Fonseca (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Luca Fornaro (Barceloa School of Economics), Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Brown University), Atif Mian (Princeton University), Karsten Müller (National University of Singapore), Bruno Pellegrino (New York University), Ludwig Straub (Harvard University), Emil Verner (MIT).