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__The Latin American
and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)
or Asociación de Economía de América Latina y el Caribe
(ADEALC)
was founded in July of 1992 in order to encourage greater
professional interaction and foster increased dialogue among
researchers and practitioners who focus their work on the
economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. The idea of
creating such an association of economists was first put
into action during the April 1991 Washington, D.C. meetings
of the Latin American Studies Association by Michael Conroy,
then a professor of economics at the University of Texas
at Austin. At a meeting attended by close to forty participants,
a seven-member Organizing Committee, led by Nora Lustig,
was appointed. LACEA has since grown to an organization
with more than 400 active members.
__The Organizing Committee
quickly obtained enthusiastic support for the idea of creating
an association from a dozen leading scholars in the field.
This early support was critical to the success of the efforts
to create LACEA. Soon after, the Organizing Committee identified
the initial Executive Committee, drafted the association's
bylaws, and applied for membership of the Allied Social
Science Association (ASSA), officially launching LACEA.Over
one hundred prominent economists from throughout the region
were invited and accepted the invitation to be charter members
of LACEA.
__The first Executive
Committee was selected and Albert Fishlow, then professor
at the University of California, Berkeley was invited to
become the first President of LACEA. On July 1, 1994 the
charter members officially approved LACEA's bylaws and its
first Executive Committee. In 1996, LACEA began to host
annual international meetings of its own. Since then, the
different organizers have been Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo
de México (ITAM), in Mexico City (1996); FEDESARROLLO and
Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia (1997); Universidad
Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998); Instituto
de Economía de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
and the Centro de Economía Aplicada de la Universidad de
Chile in Santiago de Chile (1999); Departamento de Economica,
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro in Río
de Janeiro, Brasil (2000); CERES, the Departamento de Economía
de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de
la República and Universidad ORT in Montevideo, Uruguay
(2001); Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financiero (CEMFI)
in Madrid, Spain (2002) and Universidad de las Américas,
Puebla in Cholula, México (2003).
__LACEA's presidents
have been Albert Fishlow (1993-1997), Nora Lustig (1998-1999),
Guillermo Calvo (2000-2001), and Sebastian Edwards (2002-2003).
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