XVII Workshop in International Economics and Finance, San José, 2014
8.45-9.10 Opening Remarks: Andrés Neumeyer (UTDT and Inter-American Development Bank) & Alonso Alfaro Ureña (BCCR)
09.10-10.20 "Capital Goods Trade and Economic Development" View
Michael Sposi (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), B. Ravikumar and Piyusha Mutreja
Discussant: Samuel Pienknagura
Chair: Alexander Monge
10.40-11.50 "Demand Expectations and the Timing of Stimulus Policies" View
Bernardo Guimaraes (Sao Paulo School of Economics) and Caio Machado
Discussant: Mark Wright
11.50-13.00 "Innovation and Production in the Global Economy" View
Andrés Rodriguez-Clare (UC Berkeley and NBER), Costas Arkolakis, Stephen Yeaple and Natalia Ramondo
Discussant: Veronica Rappoport
13.00-14.00
Chair: José Pablo Barquero Romero
14.00-15.10 "The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies" View
Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University), Ferdinando Monte and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Discussant: Alexander Monge
15.10-16.20 "Economic Development and the Organization of Production" View
Nicolas Roys (University of Winsconsin Madison) and Ananth Seshadri
Discussant: Juan Sanchez
Chair: Andrés Neumeyer
16.40-17.40 Policy Session "Entrepreneurship & Productivity in Latin America"
Augusto de la Torre (The World Bank), Pablo Sanguinetti (Corporación Andina de Fomento) and Santiago Levy (Inter-American Development Bank)
Chair: Andrew Powell
09.00-10.10 "Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy" View
Keyu Jin (London School of Economics), Nicolas Coeurdacier and Stéphane Guibaud
Discussant: Francisco Buera
Chair: Constantino Hevia
10.10-10.50 "Capital Market Financing, Firm Growth and Firm Size Distribution" View
Sergio Schmukler (The World Bank), Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler and Tatiana Didier
Discussant: Eugenia Andreasen
Chair: Constantino Hevia
11.10-11.50 "Capital Flows, House Prices, and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Advanced and Emerging Market Economies" View
Alessandro Rebucci (John Hopkins Carey Business School), Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi and Luis Felipe Cespedes Cifuentes
Discussant: Andrew Powell
Chair: Roger Madrigal
11.50-12.50 Key Note Lecture. "Easy but Deep Facets of Liquidity: Liquidity Boom/Crunch/Trap and the Price Theory of Money", Guillemo Calvo
12.50-14.00
Chair: Alonso Alfaro Ureña
14.00-15.10 "Managing Credit Bubbles" View
Alberto Martin (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI) and Jaume Ventura
Discussant: Emilio Espino
Chair: Tito Cordella
15.30-16.10 "Are Capital Controls Prudential? An Empirical Investigation" View
Andrés Fernández (Inter-American Development Bank), Alessandro Rebucci and Martin Uribe
Discussant: Jessica Roldán
