On March 23, the winners of the eleventh edition received their awards at a ceremony attended by authorities of the BCRA and of prestigious local and foreign universities.
This award, aimed at university students and young professionals, promotes research on monetary, macroeconomic, financial and banking topics.
The jury of the 2017 edition was composed of Iván Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), José María Fanelli (Universidad de San Andrés), Verónica Rappoport (London School of Economics), and Andrés Neumeyer and George McCandless (BCRA).
The winners are:
Category | University Students
Theme: Open
First Prize:
Title: Desinflación y falta de credibilidad en un régimen de metas de inflación (Disinflation and Lack of Credibility in an Inflation Targeting Regime)
Author: Pedro Martínez Bruera
Prize: ARS35,000
Second Prize
Title: El traspaso a precios de las depreciaciones cambiarias: una estimación VECM para el caso argentino (2005-2017) (Currency Depreciation Pass-Through: a VECM Estimation for Argentina (2005-2017))
Author: Benjamín Castiglione
Prize: ARS12,500
Title: Evaluación de la competencia del sistema bancario argentino periodo 2006-2016 mediante un modelo de Panzar-Rosse (Assessing Competition of the Argentine Banking System Using the Panzar-Rosse Model (2006-2016))
Author: Juan Pajón Scocco
Prize: ARS12,500
Category | Young Professionals
Theme: Open
First Prize:
Title: Dispersión de precios e inflación: Evidencia sobre el caso argentino(Price Dispersion and Inflation: Evidence on the Argentine Case)
Author: Federico Moll
Prize: ARS70,000
Second Prize:
Title: –
Author(s): –
Prize: ARS45,000
Category | PhD Thesis in Economics
Theme: Open
First Prize:
Title: Macroeconomics and Financial Fragility
Author: Nicolás Caramp
Prize: ARS90,000
