25th ECONOMIA PANEL MEETING
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Ave., NW, Washington DC 20577
Room Andres Bello I, 9th Floor |
April 13th -14th, 2012 |
Friday, April 13th, 2012 |
FIRST SESSION |
9:00-9:20 am |
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Breakfast - Welcome and Introduction - Editor Journal ECONOMIA:
Roberto Rigobón |
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9:20-10:10 am |
Paper 1 |
Vacation Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism |
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Rafael Romeu (IMF) RRomeu@imf.org |
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Associate Editor: |
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Francisco Rodriguez (UNDP) francisco.rodriguez@undp.org |
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10:10-11:00 am |
Paper 2 |
Does Managed Floating Reduce Macoeconomic Volatiliy? A Structural Model Assessment |
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Eduardo Lora, Johanna Fajardo (IADB) |
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Presenter: Eduardo Lora eduardol@iadb.org |
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Associate Editor: |
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Guillermo Cruces (CEDLAS/UNLP) |
11:00-11:20 pm |
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Coffee Break |
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11:20-12:10 pm |
Paper 3 |
Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007 |
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Carlos A. Ibarra (Un. de las Americas Puebla) carlos.ibarra@udlap.mx |
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Associate Editor: |
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Eduardo Fernandez-Arias (IADB) eduardof@iadb.org |
12:10-1:20 pm |
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LUNCH |
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1:20-2:10 pm |
Paper 4 |
School attendance, child labor and cash transfers. An impact evaluation of Panes |
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Verónica Amarante, Mery Ferrando, Andrea Vigorito (Udelar) |
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Andrea Vigorito andrea@iecon.ccee.edu.uy |
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Associate Editor: |
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Marcela Eslava (Universidad de los Andes) meslava@uniandes.edu.co |
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2:10-3:00 pm |
Paper 5 |
The Latin American Development Problem |
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Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)diego.restuccia@utoronto.ca |
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Ugo Panizza (UNCTAD) Ugo.panizza@unctad.org |
3:00-3:20 pm |
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Coffee Break |
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3:20-4:10 pm |
Paper 6 |
Did Chileans Maximize Pensions when Choosing between PAYG and DC? |
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Ximena Quintanilla (Superintendence of Pensions-Chile)xquintanilla@spensiones.cl |
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Associate Editor: |
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Tito Cordella (World Bank) tcordella@worldbank.org |
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4:10-5:00 pm |
*Paper 7 |
YTBD |
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Saturday, May 7th, 2011 |
SECOND SESSION |
8:50-9:10 am |
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Breakfast |
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Andrés Bello Room 9th Floor |
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9:10-10:00 am |
Paper 8 |
Media bias and central bank response. Evidence from the nominal exchange rate behavior in Colombia |
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Rodrigo Taborda Rios (Un. del Rosario) rodrigo.taborda@urosario.edu.co |
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Associate Editor: |
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Claudio Raddatz (Central Bank of Chile) craddatz@bcentral.cl |
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10:00-10:50 am |
Paper 9 |
Price Stickiness And The Hazard Rate For Price Changes: Evidence From Qualitative Survey Data |
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Harold Ayatollah Vasquez Ruiz (Georgia State University) hav@gsu.edu |
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Associate Editor: |
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Roberto Rigobón (MIT) rigobon@mit.edu |
10:50-11:10 am |
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Coffee Break |
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11:10-12:00 am |
Paper 10 |
Adapting Natural Resource Intensive Enterprises under Global Warming in Latin America |
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Joao Manoel Pinho de Mello (PUC-Rio) jmpmello@gmail.com |
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Associate Editor: |
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Roberto Rigobón (MIT) rigobon@mit.edu |
20 minutes of Paper - 10 minutes for discussant and 20 minutes open floor (approx.) |
12:00-2:00 pm |
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Editorial Board: (AEs Only) |
