Program Highlights

Thursday October 4th Friday October 5th Saturday October 6th
9:00 - 10:30. Invited sessions LACEA: "The effect of exchange rate policies." Joshua Aizenman, Federico Sturzenegger, Romain Ranciere. LACEA: "Globalization, growth, and poverty." Margaret McMillan, Abhijit Banerjee, Norman Loayza LACEA: "Women, work, and networks." Stefania Albanesi, Kaivan Munshi, and Raquel Fernandez LACEA: "Incentives: empirical evidence." Ignacio Franceschelli, Imran Rasul, Karthik Muralidharan LACEA: "Allocative efficiency and aggregate productivity." Chang Tai Hsieh, Adriana Kugler LAMES: "Economic Theory" Alvaro Sandroni, Yossi Feinberg LAMES "Development Economics" Debraj Ray - Dilip Mookherjee LAMES: "Microeconometrics" Arthur Lewbel - Shakeeb Khan LAMES: "Macroeconomics" Fernando Alvarez
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 - 3:15. Contributed and institutional sessions Contributed and institutional sessions
3:15-4:30. Invited lectures LACEA: Albert Hirshman Lecture: Abhijit Banerjee LACEA: "New developments in political economy" Alberto Alesina and Tim Besley LAMES Simonsen Lecture. Ignacio Lobato, Ricardo Cavalcanti
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee Coffee
5:00 - 6:00. Presidential addresses LAMES presidential address: "Risk over Long Horizons: An Econometric Perspective" Lars Peter Hansen LACEA presidential address: Andrés Velasco
8:00 pm Social event