Program Highlights

Thursday October 4th Friday October 5th Saturday October 6th
9:00 - 10:30. Invited sessions LACEA: "Political Economy." Rafael Di Tella, Paola Giuliano, Frederico Finan LACEA: "Conditional Cash Transfers: Rationale, Impacts and Challenges." Norbert Schady, Miguel Urquiola, Orazio Attanasio. CEIBA session: "Groups, networks and social interactions." Rajiv Sethi, Abigail Barr, Darío Maldonado LACEA: "FDI and development." Laura Alfaro, Maurice Kugler, Christian Daude LACEA: "Growth and Business Cycles in Emerging Countries." Vivian Yue, Martin Uribe, Andres Newmayer LAMES: "Economic Development." Mark Rosnezweig - Paul J. Gertler LAMES: "Financial Econometrics." Oliver Linton - Eric Renault LAMES: "Macroeconometrics" Pierre Perron - Timo Terasvista "Policy Responses to Sudden Stops in Capital Flows". BID session
10:30 - 10:45. Coffee Coffee
10:45 - 12:15. Contributed and institutional sessions Contributed and institutional sessions
12:15 - 1:45. Lunch Lunch
1:45 - 3:00. Invited lectures LACEA: "The multilateral's perspective on economic policy." Francois Bourguignon, Jose Antonio Ocampo LACEA: "International economics." Jonathan Eaton, James Tybout. LAMES: Carlos Diaz Alejandro Lecture. Mark Rosnezweig
3:00 - 4:30. Contributed and institutional sessions Contributed and institutional sessions
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee Coffee
5:00 - 6:00. Plenary LAMES: Robert Townsend LACEA: Matthew Rabin "Integrating Psychology-and-Economics Models into Applied Economics"
6:00 - 7:00. Round table or policy session Round tables and policy sessions
08:00 Dinner