The BCRA reminds applicants that papers for the 13th edition of the “Dr. Raúl Prebisch” Economic Research Annual Award can be submitted until June 30, 2021. Applicants must fill in a registration form.
The Prebisch Award is intended for university students, young professionals, and recent graduates of PhD programs in 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 2020 or 2021.
The members of the jury of this edition are the following:
Sergio Woyecheszen | Deputy Governor, BCRA.
Jorge Carrera | Alternate Deputy Governor, BCRA.
Germán Feldman | Economic Research Deputy General Manager, BCRA.
Andrea Molinari | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Interdisciplinary Institute of Political Economy of Buenos Aires (Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, IIEP), and National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET).
Margarita Olivera | Institute of Economics (Instituto de Economia), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
The BCRA will consider awarded papers for publication in the journal of economic essays called Ensayos Económicos.
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 within 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 the core and periphery, and its implications on the economic cycle; foreign restriction as the main limiting factor to sustainable growth; the need to diversify the productive structure in order to overcome foreign bottleneck; the role of the terms of trade; higher income elasticity of imports and lower income elasticity of exports in peripheral countries; and, finally, the trend towards divergence between developed and underdeveloped 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.
