LACEA 2020 Annual Meeting

The 25th Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association - LACEA 2020, took place on Thursday and Friday, November 12-13, 2020 - and was limited to 5 keynote speakers and a panel on Covid-19 in LAC. You can find below the complete program of the event.

 

LACEA 2020 Virtual Conference
Program Chair: Claudio Ferraz (Professor of Economics, UBC & PUC-Rio)
 
  Program  

November 12th, 2020    

10:00-11:30 A.M. EST 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Keynote "Building better schools for better lives", by Kirabo Jackson (Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Session chair: Alejandra Mizala (Professor, Universidad de Chile)

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11:45-01:15 P.M. EST 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special COVID-19 panel

Speakers: Raj Chetty (William A. Ackman Professor of Economics, Harvard University), Francisco Ferreira (Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies, London School of Economics) and Nora Lustig (Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University)

Session chair: Raquel Fernández (Silver Professor of Economics at New York University, President of LACEA)

  

01:30-03:00 P.M. EST  

 

 

 

 

  

                                                                                                                                                               

Keynote “Dominant Firms and the Economy”, by Thomas Philippon (Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern School of Business, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Session chair: Marcela Eslava (Dean, Faculty of Economics, Universidad de los Andes)

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November 13th, 2020    

10:00-11:30 A.M. EST

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Keynote "Dollar Dominance and the Impact of Monetary Policy", by Silvana Tenreyro (Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The London School of Economics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Session chair: Carlos Viana de Carvalho (Associate Professor, PUC-Rio)

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01:30-03:00 P.M. EST 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Keynote “Gendered Work Assignments: Cause and Effect”, by Lise Vesterlund (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics; University of Pittsburgh, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Session chair: Juan Camilo Cárdenas (Professor of Economics, Universidad de los Andes)

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04:00-05:30 P.M. EST 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Keynote "Tasks, Automation and the Labor Market", by Daron Acemoglu (Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Session chair: Rodrigo Soares (Fundação Lemann Professor of Economics, Insper and Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International; and Public Affairs and Affiliated Professor of Economics, Columbia University)

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