NBER- National Bureau of Economic Research
FEDESARROLLO
Inter-American
Seminar on Economics
Informality,
Corruption and Institutions
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PROGRAM (Club el Nogal Carrera 7 #
78-96 - Salón Buenos Aires Piso 12 Bogotá)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1st
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8:30 AM |
Registration and Welcome |
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8:45 AM |
Session 1 Macroeconomics Chair: TBC Alberto Alesina (Harvard University and NBER) Why is Fiscal Policy often Procyclical? (with Guido Tabellini) Comments: Leonardo Villar (Banco de la República,
Colombia) |
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9:45 AM |
Norman Loayza (World Bank) Informality Trends and Cycles (with Jamele Rigolini) Comments: Marcela
Meléndez (Inter American Development Bank) |
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10:45 AM |
Sebastián Edwards (UCLA
and NBER) Corruption, Institutions and Capital Controls Comments: Roberto Junguito (Fasecolda, Colombia) |
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11:45 AM 12:00 AM |
Coffee Break William Maloney The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows (with
Mariano Bosch and Edwin Goni) Comments: María Laura Alzua (IERAL de Fundación
Mediterránea, Argentina) |
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1:00 2:30 2:30 PM |
Lunch (Free) Session 2 Informality in LAC Chair: Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) Hugo Maul (Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala)
Penny Capitalism to Global Markets:
The case of the Guatemalan informal sector Comments: Pablo Acosta (CAF, Venezuela) |
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3:30 PM |
Pablo Fajnzylber (World Bank) Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm
Performance? Quasi-Experimental
Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES Program (with William Maloney and Gabriel
Montes) Comments: Maurice Kugler (Harvard University) |
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4:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
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5:00 PM |
Raquel Bernal (Universidad de los
Andes, Colombia) Informality
in Colombia: The Case of Child Labor
(with Mauricio Cárdenas) Comments: Stefania Scandizzo (CAF, Venezuela) |
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6:00 PM |
Adjourn |
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8:00 PM |
Dinner (by invitation only) |
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2nd
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9:00 AM |
Session 3 Informality and Institutions Chair: : Arturo Galindo
(Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia) Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) Property Rights of the Poor: effects of land titling (with Sebastián
Galiani).
Daniel Mejía (Banco de la República, Colombia) |
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10:00 AM |
Jennifer Hunt (Mc Gill University and NBER) Bribery in Health
Care in Peru and Uganda
Mauricio
Olivera (Fedesarrollo, Colombia) |
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11:00 AM |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 AM |
Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth University and NBER) Institutional
Influences on Human Capital Accumulation:
micro evidence from children vulnerable to bondage.
Alejandro Gaviria (Universidad de los
Andes, Colombia) |
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12:30 PM 2:30 PM |
Discussion
Panel Informality
and Socioeconomic Performance Chair: TBC Participants: Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) Mauricio Cárdenas (Fedesarrollo,
Colombia) Sebastian
Edwards (UCLA and NBER) Guillermo
Perry (World Bank) Mauricio Santa María (Departamento
Nacional de Planeación, Colombia) Adjourn |
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