The BCRA has decided to postpone the deadline for the submission of papers for “Dr. Raúl Prebisch” Economic Research Annual Award until Friday, July 31. Participants should use the form to enroll.
Within the framework of the 85th anniversary of the BCRA, the 2020 edition of the “Dr. Raúl Prebisch” Economic Research Annual Award is intended for young professionals and university students of Economics and related studies in Argentina.
This twelfth edition 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
Jury:
Martín Abeles, Director, Buenos Aires Office, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Jorge Carrera, Alternate Deputy Governor, BCRA
Germán Feldman, Economic Research Deputy General Manager, BCRA
Silvia London, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS) and National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET)
Roxana Maurizio, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and CONICET
Marta Novick, Universidad Metropolitana para la Educación y el Trabajo (UMET) and CONICET
Walter Sosa Escudero, Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and CONICET
Sergio Woyecheszen, Deputy Governor, BCRA.
The awarded papers will be published on the BCRA website and will be considered for publication in the Ensayos Económicos journal.
For enquiries about the award, send an email to premio.invest@bcra.gob.ar or call (011) 4348-3582.
Dr. 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.
