The International Monetary Fund has announced the 27th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, to be held on 12–13 November 2026 in Washington, DC, and invited submissions on the theme “Towards a Multipolar World – Technology and Geopolitics”. The conference will focus on how geopolitical shifts, new technologies such as stablecoins and other digital settlement instruments, and widening global imbalances may reshape the international monetary system, with implications for liquidity, capital flows and stability. The IMF listed research areas of interest including digital money and cross-border payment innovations, geopolitical and digital fragmentation, the global financial safety net (swap lines, regional arrangements and multilateral institutions), safe assets and reserves, drivers and transmission of global liquidity, cross-border spillovers, and the role of industrial, trade, financial, fiscal and structural factors in global imbalances. Full papers or extended proposals must be submitted via the IMF portal by 15 June 2026. The program committee will evaluate submissions for originality, analytical rigor and policy relevance, with selected authors to be contacted by mid-July 2026; additional program information will be posted subsequently.

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