5° UTDT BCRA Annual Conference on Economy
The Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) University are pleased to invite you to take part in this conference where well-known economists will give presentations on different topics at the BCRA and the UTDT on December 19 and 20.
To attend the conference, send your request to investig@bcra.gob.ar
To download the program in PDF format, click here (in spanish)
Program
Monday, December 19, 2016
Room Dr. Ernesto Bosch, Central Bank of Argentina
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Delivery of Awards | 10° Economic Research Annual Award "Dr. Raúl Prebisch" Federico Sturzenegger (Governor, BCRA) |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Turnover Liquidity and the Transmission of Monetary Policy Ricardo Lagos (New York University) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Monetary Policy, Bounded Rationality and Incomplete Markets Iván Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Fiscal Multipliers and the Home Bias of Public Debt Fernando Broner (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | What Explains the Product Market Component of Corporate Investment? Maria Cecilia Bustamante (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | The Behavior of Imports in Large Crises Joaquin Blaum (Brown University) |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | The Long and the Short of it: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity Raquel Fernández (New York University) |
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Campus Alcorta, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries Michael Peters (Yale University) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Retail Prices in a City Saul Lach (The Hebrew University) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Long-Term Finance and Economic Development: The Role of Liquidity in Corporate Debt Markets Julian Kozlowski (New York University) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Screening and Adverse Selection in Frictional Markets Venky Venkateswaran (New York University) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Signaling to Experts Pablo Kurlat (Stanford University) |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Capital Accumulation and Dynamic Gains from Trade Ana Maria Santacreu (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) |
