LACEA LAMES MONTEVIDEO 2024
Conference dates:
NOVEMBER 14 TO 16
The LACEA LAMES 2024 Annual Meeting will feature a keynote speech by Professor James A. Robinson, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Welcome
The Latin American Economic Association (LACEA) and the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Econometric Society (LAMES) are pleased to announce that the 2024 meeting will be hosted by the Universidad de la República (Udelar), in Montevideo, Uruguay, on November 14-16, 2024. This is a special year since we are celebrating the 45 years of LAMES and the 300 anniversary of the foundation of Montevideo.
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Mentoring Workshop
The LACEA Mentoring Workshop is aimed at providing feedback and advice to PhD Candidates from Latin American universities. The objective is to provide the PhD students with a unique opportunity to promote their work in a highly demanding setting and thus improve the quality of their work. Each selected candidate will receive comments from a senior scholar in their field. The senior scholar will provide constructive feedback on the content of the paper as well as publication advice.
The Mentoring Workshop will take the form of parallel sessions and a 30-minute one-on-one session with the assigned senior scholar. The parallel sessions are open to LACEA participants.
The scientific committee conformed by Rodrigo Ceni (Iecon, UdelaR), Fernando Borraz (Decon, UdelaR), Laura Alfaro (Harvard) and Verónica Frisancho (CAF) selected nine PhD Candidates based on the quality of the applications with consideration given to field and candidate diversity, as well as an appropriate student-senior scholar fit.
Select the sessions below to view more information about each pair and to see links to the papers.
Trade Liberalization and Interregional Credit Reallocation.
Inflation Heterogeneity and Differential Effects of Monetary and Oil Price Shocks.
Spillover of US Large-Scale Asset Purchases: The Role of External Corporate Bond Credit.
Agricultural Fires and Student Performance: Evidence from Brazil.
Driving Change: Assessing the Impact of EV-promoting Policies in Argentina.
Can growth take place while reducing emissions?.
The Motherhood Trap: How the First Child Shapes Couples' Labor Trajectories.
Generosity vs. sustainability: The Case of The Colombian Health System in Bogota.
Gender differentials in wage losses after leaving formal employment in Brazil.
Organizing Committees
The conference program co-chairs are Diego Restuccia for LACEA, Cristine Campos de Xavier Pinto for LAMES, and the local committee chairs are Verónica Amarante and Leandro Zipitría from Udelar. Florencia Amábile, Maira Colacce, Mauricio De Rosa, and Luis Frones from Udelar are members of the Local Organizing Committee. Click here learn the names of our Programme Committee members.
The Mentoring Workshop will take the form of parallel sessions and a 30-minute one-on-one session with the assigned senior scholar. The parallel sessions are open to LACEA participants.
Venue
Universidad de la República (Udelar), a public institution founded in 1849, is Uruguay’s largest university. It accounts for roughly 80% of the country’s academic research and has around 137.000 students. Udelar hosts two Economics research units located in Montevideo: Instituto de Economía, School of Economics and Administration (FCEA), and Departamento de Economía, School of Social Sciences (FCS). They jointly gather 110 researchers, two master programs and a doctoral degree in Economics.
The main conference venue will be the School of Economics and Administration (FCEA). The building is located at the corner of Gonzalo Ramírez street and Eduardo Acevedo street.
Address: Av. Gonzalo Ramírez 1926, 11200 Montevideo, Departamento de Montevideo.
Travelling to Montevideo
Montevideo is capital of Uruguay and also the southernmost capital city in the Americas. Montevideo is known as one of Latin America's safest cities, as well as South America's highest-ranking city for quality of living.
Several airlines have direct flights to Montevideo.
Please check the document below for direct flights and frequencies.
On your arrival at Carrasco airport, you can take a taxi to your hotel in Montevideo. Taxis are parked outside as you exit the airport. It will take between 30 and 40 minutes to reach your hotel. We advise you to request the driver to take you along the "rambla" (see promenade) to enjoy the view of the river "Río de la Plata". The cost of the transfer is 2000 Uruguayan pesos (aprox USD 55).
Click here for more information on taxis.
Temperature in November ranges between 20°C and 24°C Celsius during the day but it can get cooler in the evening up to 15°C.
Montevideo is a fairly safe city compared to other cities in Latin America, but basic precautions are recommended.
Call For Papers
Submissions are invited in the form of complete papers, and should be sent electronically by June 10, 2024 through the conference website. For each submission, at least one author must be a member of either LACEA or the Econometric Society. A person can submit only one paper, although they can be co-authors in papers submitted by others.
We encourage submissions from both established researchers and young scholars, and we particularly welcome papers from researchers based in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This year we are launching a special call for a workshop and mentoring session for PhD students at Latin American universities. Please refer to the call below on this site.
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