1997 LACEA ANNUAL MEETING

Fedesarrollo - Universidad de los Andes

SANTAFE DE BOGOTA, October 2-4, 1997

Conference Session 2 Detailed Program Listing

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Session 2 - 1997 Meetings of LACEA October 2 - 4, 1997

A	B	C
SPECULATIVE ATTACKS	THE REAL PLAN: STABILIZATION AND GROWTH PROSPECTS IN BRAZIL	FINANCE AND INSTITUTIONS
Raquel Fernández - NYU	Marcio G.P. Garcia - PUC Rio de Janeiro	Marco Pagano - U. de Salerno and CEPR
Tittle to be announced, by Robert Flood, IMF	"Fiscal Policy Sustainability in Brazil" by Rogerio L.F Werneck and Afonso S. Bevilaqua PUC- RJ	"Legal Determinants of External Finance" by Rafael La Porta, Harvard University, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Harvard University and NBER, Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University, and Rob Vishny, University of Chicago
Title to be announced, by Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota	"Inflation and Stabilization: A Few Lessons from the Brazilian Experience" by Afonso C. Pastore, FEA/USP	"Optimal Bank-bailout schemes" by Patrick Bolton, ECARE, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Tilburg University, CEPR, Phillipe Aghion, University College and EBRD, London and Steven Fries, EBRD, London
Title to be announced,by Peter Garber, Brown University	Capital Flows to Brazil in the Nineties: Macroeconomic Aspects and the Effectiveness of Capital Controls" by Marcio G. P. Garcia, PUC-RJ	"Finance and Growth" by Luigi Zingales , University of Chicago and NBER, and Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago, Northwestern University and NBER
		"The choice of stock ownership structure: agency costs, monitoring and the dewcision to go public" by Marco Pagano, Universita´di Salerno and CEPR, and Alisa Rôel, ECARE, ULB.

Session 2 (cont.)

D	E	F
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF Trade	INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND MACROECONOMICS	UNEMPLOYEMENT
Ricardo Hausmann - Inter- American Develop. Bank	Miguel Székely - Inter American Development Bank	Eduardo Lora - Inter American Development Bank
"Free Trade Agreements-related Uncertainty, Stock Prices and Comparative Advantage: Evidence From Mexico" by Pablo Javier Klein, University of California at Berkeley	"Chi va piano, no va lontano" by Juan Luis Londoño, Poder y Dinero	"Participación y Desempleo: Aspiraciones u Oportunidades" by Jaime Tenjo, Universidad de los Andes
"Trade and Security" by Douglas Marcouiller, Boston College and James E. Anderson, Boston College and NBER.	"Eficiencia, equidad y reesructuracion sectorial del gasto publico social." by Carlos Eduardo Velez, Banco de la Repubica	"State Dependence and heterogeneity in youth employment stories" by Thierry Magnac, Institut National de la Reserch Agronomique and CREST
"The Value of Trade Agreements in the Presence of Political Pressures" by Andrés Rodriguez, University of Chicago	"Costos sociales de la inestabilidad macroeconomica." by Raquel Bernal, Mauricio Cardenas, Fedesarrollo, Fabio Sanchez y Jairo Nuñez Departamento Nacional de Planeacion.	"Rural Labor Markets and Education: Testing for Separation on Peruvian Rural Households" by Edmundo Murrugarra, University of California
"Lobbying by Capital and Labor Over Trade and Labor Markets Policies" by Martin Rama, World Bank and Guido Tabellini, Universitá Bocconi and IGIER	"Economic Transition and the Distribution of Income and Wealth" by Francisco Ferreira, The World Bank

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