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17TH ECONOMIA PANEL MEETING

Yale - Luce Hall - New Haven, CT - USA
Friday May 02 and Saturday May 03, 2008

Friday 5/02 1:45 - 6:00pm

17th ECONOMIA PANEL MEETING - 1st Day

1:45 - 2:00pm
 

Welcome and Introduction

Editor Journal Economía: Roberto Rigobon (MIT)

   
2:00 - 3:15pm

Paper 1 IS BRAZIL DIFFERENT? RISK, DOLLARIZATION AND INTERESTS IN EMERGING MARKETS (PDF)

 

Edmar Bacha (IEPE Brazil); Marcio Holland (FGV Sao Paulo); Fernando Gonçalves (IMF)

 

Discussants:
Marcio Garcia (PUC Rio de Janeiro); Andrew Powell (IADB)

  Associate Editor: Roberto Rigobon (MIT)

3:15  - 4:30pm

Paper 2: THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE POOR IN LATIN AMERICA (PDF)

 

Erik Thorbecke (Cornell); Machiko Nissanke (SOAS - U. of London)

  Discussants:
Samuel Freije (World Bank); Guido Porto (World Bank)
  Associate Editor: Francisco Ferreira (World Bank)
4:30 - 4:45pm

COFFEE BREAK

4:45 - 6:00pm

Paper 3: FACTOR ADJUSTMENTS AND IMPORTS FROM CHINA AND INDIA: EVIDENCE FROM URUGUAYAN MANUFACTURING (PDF)

 

Nestor Gandelman (U. ORT); Carlos Casacuberta (U. de la Republica)

 

Discussants:
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia U.); Luis Felipe Lopez Calva (UNDP)

  Associate Editor: Kevin Cowan (Banco Central, Chile)
7:30pm

 

DINNER

 

Saturday 5/03   8:00 am - 12:30 pm

ECONOMIA PANEL MEETING - 2nd Day

8:30 - 9:45am

Paper 4: DETERMINANTS OF SCHOOL CHOICE IN CHILE (PDF)

  Francisco Gallego (PUC Chile); Andres E. Hernando (Harvard)
 

Discussants:

Lucas Flabbi (Georgetown University) ; Melissa Tartari (Yale)

 

Associate Editor: Carmen Pages-Serra (IADB)

9:45 - 11:00am

Paper 5: EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET FOR PENSION RETIREMENT FUNDS IN MEXICO: A DEMAND AND SUPPLY PERSPECTIVE (PDF)

 

Ricardo Cavazos-Cespeda (ARE Berkeley); Felipe A. Vasquez-Lavin (ARE Berkeley); Jeffrey LaFrance (ARE Berkeley)

  Discussants:
Fausto Hernandez (CIDE); Marcela Melendez (Economica - Bogota)
 

Associate Editor: Eduardo Engel (Yale)

11:00 - 11:15am
COFFEE BREAK

11:15  - 12:30pm

Paper 6: In Search of the Missing Resource Curse (PDF)

 

Dan Lederman (World Bank); William Maloney (World Bank)

  Discussants:
Thad Dunning (Yale); Cameron Shelton (Wesleyan University)
 

Associate Editor: Francisco Rodriguez (Wesleyan Un.)

12:30 - 1:30pm
LUNCH

IMPORTANT: Please note that authors will have 25 minutes to present and discussants 10 minutes each.

 

Editorial Board Meeting (Editors only): Friday 5/02 10:00 am and Saturday 5/03 12:30 pm

 

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