Tentative contents include:• The Real Exchange Rate and Economic GrowthDani Rodrik (Harvard University)• Financial Regulation in a System ContextStephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University)• Beyond Leveraged Losses: The Balance Sheet Effects of the Home Price DownturnJan Hatzius (Goldman Sachs)• The Central Role of House Prices in the Financial Crisis: How Will the Market Clear?Karl Case (Wellesley College)• Financial "Whac-a-Mole": Bubbles, Commodity Prices, and Global ImbalancesRicardo Caballero (MIT), Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University) and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (University of California--Berkeley)•Making Sense of the Subprime CrisisKristopher Gerardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta),Andreas Lehnert (Federal Reserve Board), and PaulWillen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)• The Unofficial Economy and Economic DevelopmentRafael La Porta (Dartmouth College) and Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)

Douglas W. Elmendorf is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He previously served as a staff member at the Federal Reserve Board, Treasury Department, Council of Economic Advisers, and Congressional Budget Office. N. Gregory Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. From 2003 to 2005 he served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He served as president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006 and as secretary of the U. S. Treasury from 1999 to 2001. He is also a former chief economist with the World Bank.