Third Bolivian
Conference on Development Economics (BCDE2011)
La Paz, 14-15 November 2011
The Institute for Advanced
Development Studies (INESAD),
the Society of Bolivian Economists (SEBOL),
Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB),
and the Bolivian Academy of Economic Sciences (ABCE)
are jointly organizing the Third Bolivian Conference on
Development Economics, to be held at the Department of
Economics at Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz,
Bolivia, on November 14 and 15, 2011.
The conference aims at
bringing together local and international scholars for the
exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within
theoretical and applied development economics research. We
particularly encourage female researchers and young Bolivian
researchers to submit papers on all topics within the field
of development economics. The Conference features keynote
speakers Santiago Levy (IADB and Brookings) and James
Robinson (Harvard University).
Keynote speakers
Santiago Levy (Ph.D.
Boston University) is Vice President for Sectors and
Knowledge at the Inter-American Development Bank, and Senior
Fellow with the Global Economy and Development Program at
the Brookings Institution. He has been Chief Economist of
the Inter American Development Bank, Director of the Mexican
Social Security Institute, Deputy Minister of Finance and
Public Credit, President of the Federal Competition
Commission, and Director of the Economic Deregulation
Program in the Ministry of Trade and Industrial Promotion of
Mexico. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Department of
Economics and Politics of Cambridge University, and the main
architect of the Progresa-Oportunidades anti-poverty program
in Mexico. His CV, a list of publications and current
research projects, are available
here.
James Robinson (Ph.D. Yale) is the David Florence Professor of Government
at Harvard University, a faculty associate at the
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and member of
the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's program on
Institutions, Organizations and Growth. He has taught at
various universities, and before moving to Harvard was
Professor in the Departments of Economics and Political
Science at the University of California at Berkeley. His
contributions to the fields of political economy,
comparative politics, and economic and political have been
published in top economic and political science academic
journals. He is co-editor of "Economía colombiana del siglo
XX: Un análisis cuantitativo" with Miguel Urrutia
(Universidad de Los Andes), and coauthor of "Economic
Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" with Daron Acemoglu
(MIT). His CV, a list of publications and current research
projects, are available
here.
Format of presentations and discussion
The conference will
largely consist of parallel sessions, plenary sessions, and
2 keynote lectures. All participants may be requested to
serve as discussants in the parallel sessions.
Paper submission
Papers must be
submitted by email (as a Word or a PDF file) to the
conference e-mail account,
bcde2011@inesad.edu.bo. The deadline for
paper submission is
Friday September 16, 2011.
All submitted papers
will be reviewed prior to acceptance for presentation. The
review process will finish by Friday September 30, 2011, and
the organizers will notify applicants of the outcome by
email. A program with details of all scheduled presentations
will be posted at the Conference's web site.
Travel and accommodation
All participants must
cover their own travel and accommodation costs, but the
organizers have made arrangements for preferential rates at
hotels Plaza, Europa and Camino Real in La Paz.
A travel stipend of 700 USD will be
offered to some of the successful applicants residing
outside Bolivia, based on the quality of their submissions.
Applicants interested in being considered for one of these
stipends, should indicate that at the moment of submitting
their papers.
- Lykke E. Andersen, INESAD
- Enrique
García Ayaviri, ABCE
- Carlos Gustavo Machicado, INESAD
-
Alejandro Mercado, UCB
- Juan Antonio Morales, UCB
- Beatriz
Muriel, INESAD
- Pablo Selaya, University of Copenhagen
-
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University.
