Within the framework of the 85th anniversary, the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic opens the call to participate in the Annual Economic Research Award “Dr. Raúl Prebisch” 2020 edition, aimed at students, young professionals of university careers in the area of Economics and related, from all over the country.
The Prize aims to promote and stimulate research on monetary, macroeconomic, financial and banking topics and honors one of the most important economists in Argentine history.
The award categories are:
- University-level students: economics or related, in public and/or private universities, throughout the country.
- Young professionals: with no more than five years of graduates in economics or related careers.
- PhD thesis in Economics: written by graduates of Argentine universities and the work has been approved during the years 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020.
The prizes established for each category are:
College-level students
First prize: $75,000.-
Second prize: $ 50,000.-
Young professionals
First Prize: $150,000.-
Second Prize: $ 90,000.-
PhD Thesis in Economics
Prize: $ 250,000.-
The works will be received until Tuesday, June 30 inclusive, through a registration form in the section Institutional/Annual Economic Research Award, where the Terms and conditions and the works awarded in previous editions.
The award-winning works will be published on the Bank’s website and, eventually, considered for publication in the journal Ensayos Económicos.
For specific inquiries about the Award, write to premio.invest@bcra.gob.ar or by phone (011) 4348-3582.
Dr. Raúl Prebisch
Dr. Prebisch was a precursor of Latin American structuralist thinking within the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and introduced towards the end of the 1940s economic categories that are still fundamental to understanding the development challenges facing our economies: the interaction between center and periphery and its implications on the economic cycle; external restriction as the main constraint to sustained growth; the need to diversify the productive structure to overcome external strangulation; the role of the terms of trade and their secular deterioration; the greater income elasticity of imports in the peripheral countries and, finally, the tendency for divergence between the developed and underdeveloped countries if these structural problems are not reversed.
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.
