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Call for Papers
Third UTDT Workshop in International Economics and Finance
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, August 21-24, 2000
Third UTDT Workshop in
International Economics and Finance will be held at Universidad T.
Di Tella in Buenos Aires during the week August 21-24, 2000. This
Workshop is the Summer Edition of the Camps in International
Economics and Finance sponsored by LACEA and is organized by the
Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland and
the Department of Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
The workshop is a unique event
that brings together top researchers, financiers, and policymakers
from the North and the South to discuss recent theoretical and
empirical advances in International Economics and Finance. The goal
of these meetings is to gain a better understanding of the
macroeconomic problems faced by Latin American countries and to
encourage research on the subject. The program's format will be
similar to that of our past meetings in Buenos Aires, Paracas, and
Cartagena (for details on 99 at Di Tella visit
http://www.utdt.edu/congresos/economia/summercamp.htm
Three days will be devoted to pure brainstorming among
campers, and one to a conference open to the public. The morning of
each brainstorming day will be devoted to the presentation of three
papers, while the afternoons will be free for informal interactions,
and playing around Buenos Aires. Evenings are for wining, dining and
Tango. If you are a skier, you can ski the Andes during the weekend.
A program committee formed by Guillermo Calvo, Enrique Mendoza,
Andrés Neumeyer, and Carlos Vegh will select the papers in the brain
storming session. We welcome theoretical and empirical research
relevant for understanding the macroeconomic problems faced by Latin
American countries. Possible topics include business cycles and
unemployment in emerging economies, the choice of a monetary and
exchange rate regime, capital flows and asset prices in emerging
markets (country risk), the stability of the financial system,
balance of payments crises, and the international financial
architecture. A special emphasis will be placed in attracting young
scholars.
The conference open to the public
will include policy makers as well as academics, and will have an
entirely different format. It will preferably be in Spanish, and the
presentations will be policy oriented. The focus will be on monetary
policy in emerging economies and the choice of an exchange rate
regime. The invitation does not require presenting a paper.
Actually, we anticipate that there will be more participants than
the nine papers that we will be able to accommodate during the
brainstorming sessions. Thus, the only requirement is your
willingness to be an active participant during those three days. (If
you don't want or can't stay for the conference open to the public,
which will take place the last day of the program, it is just as
well with us too, subject to having enough volunteers). For academic
participants, we expect to be able to offer hotel accommodations and
a round-trip economy class (cheapest) airfare. We urge you to find
other sources of funds to cover transportation costs, as we are
running this on a limited budget. Please, send us an email
indicating your willingness to participate in the summer camp to
summer2k@utdt.edu by February
28, 2000. If you would like to present a paper, send also a title
and an abstract. The submission deadline for papers is July 7, 2000.
Papers (rough preliminary drafts are acceptable) must be submitted
in PDF format to
summer2k@utdt.edu.
The last camp in Buenos Aires was a success, and we have
every reason to believe that the next Summer Camp will not
disappoint us. Besides, Buenos Aires will be gorgeous in August!
With our best wishes,
Guillermo Calvo
University of Maryland
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