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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 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, 2008.
For 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, International Trade and Economic Growth in Latin America, Impact Evaluation Network ,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

Nora Lustig

Mariano Tommasi

Sebastián Edwards

Guillermo Calvo

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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LACEA ELECTIONS 2009

The process to elect a Vice President for the period 2010-2011 (to become President for the period 2012-2013) and six new members of the Executive Committee for the period 2010-13 is now closed. For 2009 Election results click here.


LACEA 14th Annual Meeting Survey

The survey evaluating the recent 2009 LACEA meeting is now closed. Thank you to the LACEA participants who responded to our survey. To see the results please click here.

 

The XII Workshop in International Economics and Finance, organized by Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Central Bank of Brazil, LACEA, IADB and the World Bank, will take place in Rio de Janeiro on April 8-10, 2010. Deadline for submitting papers is January 4th, 2010. For more information click here.

The 11th Annual meeting of the Political Economy Group of LACEA (PEG) will take place in Cartagena, Colombia, on May 20th and 21st 2010  and will be organized by Universidad de Los Andes and Fedesarrollo. Deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2010. For more information please click here.

 

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