NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Summer Institute 2007

 

Microeconomics and Growth: Lessons for Latin America

 

Sebastian Edwards and Alexander Galetovic, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline A Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 11-12, 2007

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 11:

 

 

2:00 pm

STEPHEN HABER, Stanford University and NBER

 

Financial Development and Political Institutions: Evidence from New World Economies

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROSS LEVINE, Brown University

 

 

3:00 pm

LUIS FELIPE LÓPEZ-CALVA, Stanford University

 

The Inequality Trap and its Links to Low Growth in Mexico

 

 

 

Discussant:  ERNESTO DAL BÓ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

4:00 pm

MARIANO TOMMASI, University of San Andrés

 

Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Argentina

 

 

 

Discussant:  PEDRO DAL BÓ, Brown University

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 12:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

WILLIAM MALONEY, The World Bank

 

Innovation Shortfalls

 

 

 

Discussant:  ALEXANDER GALETOVIC, Universidad de los Andes

 

 

10:00 am

ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

 

 

 

Discussant:  KEVIN COWAN, Banco Central de Chile

 

 

11:00 am

MARCELA ESLAVA, Universidad de los Andes

 

Trade Reforms and Market Selection:  Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT ALVAREZ, Banco Central de Chile

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

7:00 pm

Legal Sea Foods

 

Kendall Square

 

5 Cambridge Center

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/20/07