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Yet Mr Ostry rightly emphasises that the bar for intervention should be high.
ECONOMIST: Free exchange
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IMF's executive committee, as proposed by Sylvia Ostry, a former Canadian trade negotiator.
ECONOMIST: Free trade in peril
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Such deflections are not necessarily bad, according to a new IMF discussion paper by Mr Ostry, Atish Ghosh and Mr Korinek.
ECONOMIST: Free exchange
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Jonathan Ostry, an economist at the IMF, reckons there is a theoretical case for limiting capital inflows to prevent a surge in currencies above fair value.
ECONOMIST: Free exchange
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As Jonathan Ostry, one of the paper's authors, points out, the fund now appreciates that fiscal retrenchment does little to restore confidence unless there is an underlying fiscal problem.
ECONOMIST: Has the IMF changed? Or has the world?