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Program
First Meeting of the Political
Economy Network
Cartagena, Colombia,
August 28-30, 1998
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LACEA
- FEDESARROLLO
Cartagena
de Indias, Agosto 28 y 29 de 1998
Lugar
(Place): Museo del Oro, Banco de la República, Cartagena,
COLOMBIA
Contact:
Mauricio Cárdenas (mcardena@fedesarrollo.org.co)
Programa
(Program)
Ensayos/Papers
Viernes,
Agosto 28 (Friday, August 28)
8:30
AM
Instalación*
(Opening Remarks*): Nora Lustig (President of LACEA) y Mauricio Cárdenas
(Fedesarrollo)
8:45
AM
Sesión
Inagural* (Inaugural Session*): Juan Camilo Restrepo, Ministro de
Hacienda y Crédito Público de Colombia (Minister of Finance,
Colombia). The Political Economy of Colombia´s Fiscal Adjustment
(TBC)
Sesión
I (Session I)
Moderador
(Chairman): Ricardo Hausmann (BID)
9:30
AM
Pablo
Spiller (University of California at Berkeley) A positive theory
of administrative procedures
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
10:30 AM
Receso (Break)
10:45 AM
Mariano Tomasi (Universidad
de San Andrés, Argentina) A Transaction-Cost Politics approach to
Fiscal Federalism in Argentina
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
11:45 AM
Jim Robinson
(University of Southern California) Political Development in Latin
America (together with Daron Acemoglu, MIT).
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
12:45 PM
Almuerzo (Lunch)
(participantes/participants only). Place: TBA
Sesión II
(Session II)
Moderador
(Chairman): Miguel Urrutia
2:15 PM
Ernesto Stein
(BID) Political economy of exchange rate regimes in LatinAmerica
Together with
Piero Gezzi (Johns Hopkins) and Jeff Frieden (Harvard)
Comentarista
(Discussant): Andrés Velasco (NYU y NBER)
3:15 PM
Marco Bonomo (PUC-RIO)
Elections and Exchange Rate Policy
Together with
Cristina Terra (Getulio Vargas Foundation).
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
4:15 PM
Receso (Break)
4:30 PM
Mesa Redonda:
Analisis de Economía Política en América Latina: Estado actual
y agenda futura
Roundtable:
Polical Economy Analysis in LatinAmerica: Current state and future
issues
Moderador
(Chairman): TBA
Nancy Birsdall
(BID)
Sebastián
Edwards (Banco Mundial, UCLA)
Nora Lustig
(Brookings Institution, USA)
Miguel Urrutia (Banco
de la República, Colombia)
Ricardo Hausmann
(BID)
6:30 PM
Adjourn
8:30 PM
Cena ofrecida por
el Banco de la República en honor de los invitados extranjeros al
seminario. Dinner hosted by the Central Bank in honor of foreing
guests. Lugar (Place): TBA
Sabado, August 29
(Saturday, August 29)
Sesión III
(Session III)
Moderador
(Chairman):
9:00 AM
Andrés Velasco
(NYU and Harvad) TBA
Comentarista
(Discussant):
10:00 AM
Eduardo Lora
(BID) On the Political Economy of Reform in Latin America
Comentarista
(Discussant):
11:00
Receso (Break)
11:15
Ernesto Talvi
(CERES, Uruguay) Institutional Arrangements and Fiscal
Performance: The Latin American Experience. Together with Ernesto
Stein (IDB)
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
12:15
Almuerzo (Lunch)
(participantes/participants only) Place: TBA
Sesión IV
(Session IV)
Moderador
(Chairman): TBA
2:15 PM
Alan Drazen (Univeristy
of Maryland) TBA
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
3:15 PM
TBA
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
4:15 PM
Receso (Break)
4:45 PM
TBA
Comentarista
(Discussant): TBA
5:45 PM Adjourn
8:30 PM
Dinner-Party. Lugar (Place):
Ensayos
Presentados/ Papers Presented
Programa/Program
Jeff Frieden
(Harvard University), Piero Ghezzi (Johns Hopkins University) and
Ernesto Stein (Inte-American Development Bank), "The
Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy in Latin America"
Andrés Velasco
(NYU and NBER), and Vicenzo Guzzo (NYU), "The
Case for a Populist Central Banker "
Jorge Streb (Universidad
del CEMA), "Political
Budget Cycles, Elections and Term Limits "
Mauricio Cárdenas
and Zeinab Partow (FEDESARROLLO), "Does
Independence Matter?The Case of the Colombian Central Bank "
Maurice Kugler
and Mauricio Agudelo (Universidad de los Andes), "La
Corrupción como Fuente de Ineficiencia Dinámica "
Mariano Tommasi
and Sebastián Saiegh (Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo
Institucional CEDI and Universidad de San Andrés), "Argentina's
Federal Fiscal Institutions: a Case Study in the Transaction-Cost
theory of Politics "
Eduardo Lora
(Inter-American Development Bank), "What
Makes Reforms Likely?"
La lista de
asistentes, adicional a de los autores mencionados, incluyó/
Attendants, apart from the highlighted authors, included:
Sergio Clavijo,
Viceministro de Finanzas de Colombia/ Deputy Finance Minister of
Colombia
José D. Uribe
and J.C. Echeverry, Banco de la República/ Bank of the Republic
Daniel
Castellanos, Universidad de los Andes
Federico
Weinschelbaum, Universidad de San Andrés
Roberto Steiner,
FEDESARROLLO
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