Program Highlights

Thursday October 4th Friday October 5th Saturday October 6th
9:00 - 10:30. Opening plenary Opening ceremony and opening plenary lecture (Kenneth Rogoff) International Financial Crises: Past and Future
10:30 - 10:45. Coffee Coffee
10:45 - 12:15. Invited sessions LACEA: "The microeconomics of export growth." James Tybout, Peter Schott, Andres Rodríguez LACEA: "International Capital Markets." Laura Alfaro, Fernando Broner, Graciela Kaminsky, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti LACEA: "Measuring unobservables." Dmytro Hryshko, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Jeff Dominitz. LACEA: "Equality of Opportunity and Social Mobility" Ricardo Paez de Barros, Francisco Ferreria and Dante Contreras LACEA: "Policy and the concentration of political power." Claudio Ferraz, Edward Miguel, Ernesto Dal Bó LAMES "General Equilibrium" Aloisio Araujo - John Geanakoplos LAMES: Lars Ljungqvist y Randall Wrigth LAMES "General Equilibrium" Dimitri Tsomocos - Herakles Polemarchakis
12:15 - 1:45. Lunch Lunch
1:45 - 3:00. Invited lectures LACEA: "New frontiers in social measurement." Orazio Attanasio, Lecturer TBC LACEA: "Strategies for growth." Ricardo Haussman, Jose Luis Machinea LAMES Sidrauski Lecture: Fernando Alvarez
3:00 - 4:30. Contributed and institutional sessions Contributed and institutional sessions
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee Coffee
5:00 - 6:00. Plenary LAMES: Eric Maskin LACEA: Pranab Bardhan "Institutional Economics of Development: A Critical Assessment"
6:00 - 7:00. Round tables and policy sessions
07:30 Cocktail and guided visit to the Gold Museum. Organized by Banco de la República