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First Colombian Conference on Fiscal Policy

Calendario
Place: Building RGD
Date: June 27, 2023
Hour: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Registration: forms.office.com/r/39KTkARrcp

 

AGENDA
8:15 - 8:30 Opening remarks. Juan Pablo Córdoba (CARF's President) and Peter Siegenthaler (World Bank)
8:30 - 9:15 Mark Aguiar (Princeton University) “Micro risks and (robust) pareto improving policies”
9:15 - 10:00 Juan José Ospina (Colombian Central Bank) "Credibility and bias: the case for implementing both a debt anchor and a balanced budget rule"
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15 Catalina Granda (Universidad de Antioquia) "The role of informality in tax policy cyclicality"
11:15 - 12:00 Guillermo Vuletin (World Bank) “The income and labor effects of individual income tax changes in Latin America: Evidence from a new measure of tax shocks”
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Leonardo Martínez (IMF) “Constrained efficient borrowing with sovereign default risk”
14:15 - 15:00 Paulina Restrepo (St Louis FED) “Natural resources and sovereign debt in emerging economies: A curse and a blessing”
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15 Andrés Zambrano (Universidad de los Andes, CARF) “Towards a fiscal potential GDP”
16:15 - 17:00 Tim Kehoe (University of Minnesota) “Default and interest rate shocks: Renegotiation matters”
17:00 - 17:15 Closing remarks. Marcela Eslava (Dean, Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes)

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