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The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association or Asociación de Economía de América Latina y el Caribe (LACEA) is an international association of economists with common research interests in Latin America. It was formed in 1992 to facilitate the exchange of ideas among economists and policymakers. For more information about LACEA, preview its history and Bylaws. We also invite you to join LACEA. To search for current LACEA members, please use our Membership Directory.

LACEA is generously supported by grants from the Global Development Network and the World Bank's Development Grant Facility. In addition, the annual meetings are supported by grants from The World Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank, The Ford Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Click here to read more about LACEA's supporters.

 

 

LACEA Annual Meetings

The 15th Annual LACEA Meeting 2010 will take place in Medellín, Colombia on November 11th-13th, hosted by Banco de la República, Centro de Pensamiento Social of Proantioquia, Universidad de Antioquia and Universidad Eafit.  For more information click here.

The 14th Annual LACEA Meeting 2009 took place in Buenos Aires, on October 1st -3rd, hosted by Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. For more information click here.

The 13th LACEA Annual Meeting 2008 took place at IMPA (Instituto Nacional De Matemática Pura E Aplicada), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 20th to 22nd. For more information click here.

Further information about previous Annual Meetings, please click here.

 

LACEA and the Global Development Network - GDN

Global Development NetworkSince 1999, the Global Development Network has been awarding annual grants to LACEA as part of its program on Regional Research Consortia capacity building. LACEA has been using the funds for a variety of activities. For a complete description of GDN related activities and research opportunities, please visit our GDN subpage.

 

LACEA Sponsored Networks

Currently, LACEA sponsors five networks in the field of Capacity Building. Each Network -- Inequality and Poverty, Political Economy,  Trade, integration and  Growth in Latin America, Impact Evaluation, and Finance Camps -- holds annual meetings in different regions of Latin America. Please take a look at their websites for more information.

Economia, the journal of LACEA

Since 2000, LACEA has been publishing the journal Economia. The objective of the journal is to provide a forum for high-quality research directly applied to policy issues within and among countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize

LACEA's Diaz-Alejandro Prize is designed to honor the memory and contribution of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, and to encourage high quality research on economic issues relevant to Latin America.

 

2010-2011 Officers:

President:

Ricardo Hausmann


Vice-President:

Roberto Rigobón



Past-Presidents:

Mauricio Cárdenas

Andrés Velasco

Mariano Tommasi

Sebastián Edwards

Guillermo Calvo

Nora Lustig

Albert Fishlow

Secretariat:

Fedesarrollo

Secretary:

Mónica Parra Torrado

Treasurer:

Sergio Schmukler

Executive Committee:

Fernando Alvarez
Orazio Attanasio
Raquel Bernal
Eduardo Engel
Raquel Fernández
Sebastián Galiani
Alejandro Gaviria
Santiago Levy
Carmen Pagés
Ugo Panizza
Andrea Repetto
Ernesto Stein


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JSTOR Access for Members

LACEA now offers JSTOR Access for all LACEA members! Please access here, to be entitled to access the Business Collection of JSTOR.

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The 15th Annual LACEA Meeting will take place in Medellín, Colombia on November 11th-13th, 2010 and will be hosted by Banco de la República, Centro de Pensamiento Social of Proantioquia, Universidad de Antioquia and Universidad Eafit.  For more information click here. 

  

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN) will take place in San Jose, Costa Rica on September 16-17,2010 and will be hosted by Universidad de Costa Rica. For more information please click here. 

 

The 4th Annual Meeting of the Impact Evaluation Network (IEN) will take place on October 8th and 9th, 2010 in Miami, Florida, and will be hosted by the Economics Department of the University of Miami. This year the program will include a oneday training course by Prof. Guido Imbens (Harvard University) on recent methodological developments in program evaluation. For more information click here.

 

The XV meeting of the LACEA/IDB/WB/UNDP Network on Inequality and Poverty (NIP) will be held in Medellín, Colombia on November 10th, 2010 at Universidad EAFIT. Deadline for submissions is August 27, 2010. For more information click here.

 

The 2010 Meeting-Mexican Chapter-Network of Inequality and Poverty (NIP) will be held at the Graduate School for Public Policy (EGAP), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus State of Mexico in Mexico City, October 15th, 2010. Deadline for submissions is September 1st 2010. For more information click here. 

 

Economia, the Journal of LACEA, calls for papers to be presented at its 23rd panel meeting to be held on May 2011. Deadline for submissions is October 27, 2010. For more information click here.

 

Economic and Social Challenges in Latin America: Developing an Agenda for the 2010s

LACEA , in partnership with the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution and the Inter-American Development Bank, hosted a workshop in Washington D.C. on February 5th, 2010, to discuss the economic issues that will be relevant for Latin America and the Caribbean during the next decade. For more information click here.

 

 

Mauricio Cardenas’ introduction to the Carlos Diaz Alejandro lecture in LACEA’s Annual Meeting: click here.

 

2010 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition-EXTENDED DEADLINE!!!

GDN invites researchers from developing and transition countries to submit new research proposals, completed research papers and proposals for scaling-up development projects. This year the focus is on Development Finance. Application Deadlines: Proposals on development projects: 22, September 2010 – Research Proposals/completed research Papers: October 25, 2010 . For more information click here.

 

 

GDN Ninth Global Research Project

GDN and its regional Project Partners are issuing a call for submission of proposals for the Project titled “Varieties of Governance: Effective Public Service Delivery”. This project will explore the role of formal and informal institutions, at both country and sector level, in the effectiveness (or lack of) of public service delivery in the areas of basic education, water supply and transport infrastructure (roads).Deadline for submissions is August 30th, 2010. For more information click here.

 

 

EUDN, the European regional network of GDN is launching the 3rd round of research grant on microinsurance in collaboration with ILO/Bill&Melinda Foundation. For more information click here.

 

 

»GDNet and CIPPEC will support the production of 5 case studies on policy research institutes (PRIs) or think tanks that have worked or are currently working jointly with a policymaking agency to produce and/or use research or evidence to inform a social policy. For more information click here.