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Conversatorio: por un enfoque de género e interseccional en la enseñanza de la economía

Descripción: con ocasión de la conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer, el miércoles 9 de marzo de 2022 realizaremos un conversatorio a las 2pm con los grupos MIA, EconomistaA_UN y Épicas que girará entorno a la pregunta: ¿cómo podemos lograr una enseñanza de la economía que se tome en serio el enfoque de género e interseccional?

Presentación del libro | HETEROGENEIDAD ESTRUCTURAL EN LA CIUDAD LATINOAMERICANA: Más allá del dualismo

  Transmisión en vivo: https://bit.ly/3C7xVhR Calendario Google   Calendario Outlook (.ics) Panelistas: Oscar Alfonso  Universidad Externado de Colombia. Martha Schteingart  El Colegio de México Pedro Abramo  Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro Moderador: Nicolás Cuervo PhD en Urbanismo Uno de los rasgos característicos de las ciudades latinoamericanas consiste en los agudos contrastes que muestran tanto en lo físico como en lo social y económico. Distintas tradiciones teóricas se disputan en la región la interpretación del origen y de las repercusiones de este fenómeno, lo que ha alimentado un largo y rico debate en los estudios urbanos, económicos y sociales por casi medio siglo. Este volumen reúne cuatro ensayos de Samuel Jaramillo González, uno de los investigadores marxistas más destacados sobre la urbanización en el subcontinente. En el marco de la tradición marxista, plantea un esquema de interpretación que busca superar el dualismo positivista, al tiempo que da cuenta de las heterogeneidades y los entrelazamientos de sus componentes. Esto está planteado de una manera novedosa en tanto establece una articulación con las versiones actuales de la teoría marxista del valor trabajo abstracto, lo que amplía de manera muy auspiciosa las interpretaciones sobre el tema y multiplica las propuestas de acción. Ebook Libro impreso

Seminario CEDE - Andrés Zambrano

This paper models an entrepreneur's choice between investing in a safe activity or experimenting with a new risky one, and how much to invest in \entrepreneurial capital" that permits more effective use of arriving information on the latter- how much to learn how to learn. Optimal investment depends on the cost, the distance from the entrepreneurial frontier, and non-monotonically, on the expected return on the risky activity, leading to three learning regimes including a potential resource curse. The model is supported by historical evidence from Latin America and simulations of the relative decline of the Chilean versus US copper industries.

Conversatorio "Diatriba de un estudiante de Economía inconforme"

  Invitamos a nuestros estudiantes a participar en este conversatorio sobre el artículo "Diatriba de un estudiante de Economía inconforme", publicado en En Deuda.  Modalidad: Presencial  Artículo: https://bit.ly/3h81ypD 

LAERE-EfD Seminar | Protected Areas’ Deforestation Spillovers and Two Critical Underlying Mechanisms

Diego Herrera is an Environmental Economist at the World Bank’s Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy Global Practice. At the World Bank he is supporting global and country-level efforts to value natural capital and manage wealth account­ing global databases. Before joining the World Bank, Diego was an Economist at the Environmental Defense Fund and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont.  Diego’s research addresses the interactions between frest conservation and development outcomes and policies. Among other topics, Diego has studied the relationship between forest conservation and human health in low- and middle-income countries, and the impacts of Brazilian Amazon protected areas on deforestation, road investments, and human migrations. Diego holds a PhD in environmental economics and policy from Duke University.

Seminario virtual CESED | ¿La erradicación forzosa propaga el cultivo de coca?

Seminario CEDE - Juan Pablo Uribe

This paper studies how the housing market in Colombia responds to policies aimed at increasing homeownership among low-income households. Private sector developers received tax incentives to build houses priced below a cutoff, and households received subsidies to buy houses below the same cutoff. The paper models an equilibrium between heterogeneous developers building differentiated housing and heterogeneous households purchasing homes. The model is estimated using bunching around the price cutoff induced by the policies. To benefit from the policy, households buy housing units up to 30 percent smaller and bunch at the policy cutoff. A counterfactual simulation shows that without supply-side incentives, developers may exit the market; their profits would be 14 percent lower.

Seminario CEDE - María Aristizabal-Ramirez

This paper examines the impact of changes in corporate credit supply on employment and wages outside of financial-crisis episodes. We construct a rich annual employee-employer-credit-bank database using Colombian administrative data from the period 2008--2018 and estimate corporate credit-supply shocks using firm and bank fixed effects. These estimates provide new evidence on three empirical facts: In response to a positive credit-supply shock, (i) firms increase their investment but do not change their average employment or wages; (ii) wages decline in the bottom half of the wage distribution while increasing at the top of the distribution; and (iii) firms with more liquid assets increase employment. We develop a small-open-economy model where the effect of a credit-supply shock is consistent with the empirical facts. In the model, two opposing mechanisms are key to explaining the results: capital-low-skill substitutability and firm-specific liquidity constraints to finance labor. These competing forces explain why average wages and employment do not change in response to credit-supply shocks while low-skilled wages decline. We use the model to study how permanent reductions in the banking intermediation premium influence firm-level responses to credit-supply shocks. Relative to the baseline model, we show a positive short-term impact on employment and wages and a negative long-term effect.

Seminario CEDE - Humberto Martínez

Why do emerging markets accumulate foreign reserves for precautionary purposes while advanced economies do not? In this paper, I argue that, in contrast to advanced economies, developing countries accumulate reserves because they lack the sufficient fiscal capacity - ability to extract resources from its citizens - to provide liquidity during crises successfully. By accumulating reserves, developing countries emulates the liquidity provision capabilities of advanced economies. To show this argument, I develop a three period model of small open economy whose funding costs are driven by a global financial cycle. Moreover, I present empirical evidence for a sample of 100 countries between 1990 and 2018 that countries with lower fiscal capacity tend to have larger stocks of foreign reserves. In terms of policy, it shows that overcoming currency mismatch, without improving fiscal capacity, might not be sufficient to eliminate the need for foreign reserves.