Within the framework of its 85th anniversary, the BCRA calls for submissions for the “Dr. Raúl Prebisch” Economic Research Annual Award 2020, intended for young professionals and university students of Economics and related studies in Argentina. This award is in commemoration of one of the most outstanding economists in Argentine history and seeks to encourage research on monetary, macroeconomic, financial and banking issues. The award categories are:
- University Students: students of Economics or related studies at public and/or private universities throughout the country.
- Young professionals: with no more than five years as graduates in Economics or related studies.
- PhD thesis in Economics: they should be written by graduates from Argentine universities and passed in 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020.
The prizes for each category are as follows:
University Students
First prize: ARS75,000
Second prize: ARS50,000
Young Professionals
First prize: ARS150,000
Second prize: ARS90,000
PhD Thesis in Economics
Prize: ARS250,000
Papers can be submitted until Tuesday, June 30, by completing a registration form at Institucional/Premio Anual de Investigación Económica. This link also contains the terms and conditions and the papers awarded in previous editions.
The awarded papers will be published on the BCRA website and would be considered for publication in the Ensayos Económicos (Economic Essays) journal.
For enquiries about the award, send an email to premio.invest@bcra.gob.ar or call (011) 4348-3582.
Dr. Raúl Prebisch
Dr. Prebisch was a pioneer of the Latin American structuralist thought in the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). By the end of the 1940s, he created a number of economic categories which are still essential to understand the challenges that our economies face today: the exchange between core and periphery and its implications on the economic cycle; foreign restriction as the main limiting factor to sustainable growth; need to diversify the productive structure in order to overcome foreign bottleneck; role of the terms of trade and their ancient worsening; higher income elasticity of imports in peripheral countries; and, finally, the trend towards divergence between developed and emerging countries if these structural problems are not solved.
Prebisch is an outstanding figure in the BCRA’s history. He was one of the leading figures to promote the bill that led to the creation of the BCRA in 1935 and was the first General Manager until 1943.
