NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
IASE-NBER
Conference
Microeconomics,
Efficiency and Welfare: Lessons for
Sebastian
Edwards and Alexander Galetovic, organizers
Universidad de
los Andes
Santiago, Chile
November
10-11, 2008
Monday, November 10
9:00 am Coffee and registration
9:30 am STEVE HABER,
Foreign Entry and the Mexican
Banking System, 1997-2007
Discussant:
Alejandro Micco
10:30 am HOYT BLEAKLEY,
Mishmash or Mismatch: Balance
Sheet Effects and Emerging Market Crises
Discussant:
Sebastián Edwards
11:30 am Coffee break
12:00 pm VITTORIO CORBO, Centro de Estudios
Públicos; SEBASTIAN EDWARDS, UCLA and NBER; ANDRÉS SOLIMANO, Cepal
Round
table: The end of capitalism?
1:00 pm Lunch
2:30 pm MARCELA ESLAVA, Universidad de
Los Andes /CEDE, JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland, NBER and IZA,
ADRIANA KUGLER, University of Houston, NBER, CEPR, IZA and, MAURICE KUGLER,
Wilfrid Laurier University, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and
Center for International Development, Harvard University
Lower
Barriers to Entry, Experimentation and Aggregate Productivity: Lessons from
Colombian Manufacturing Plants
Discussant: Roberto
Álvarez, Banco Central de Chile
3:30 pm FERNANDO DÍAZ,
ALEXANDER GALETOVIC, RICARDO SANHUEZA, Universidad de los Andes
Mobile-Fixed Substitution and Telecomm
Liberalization
Discussant: Claudio
Agostini, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
4:30
pm Adjourn
8:00
pm Dinner: Enebro, Ebro
2828, Las Condes
Tuesday, November 11
9:00 am Coffee
9:30 am DAVID MACKENZIE, The World Bank
and ERNESTO SCHARGRODSKY, Universidad di Tella
Buying Less, but Shopping
More: The use of Non-market Labor During a Crisis
Discussant: Harald Beyer,
Centro de Estudios Públicos
10:30 am RODRIGO
SOARES,
Discussant:
Ernesto Schargrodsky, Universidad di Tella
11:30 am Coffee break
12:00 pm CESAR
MARTINELLI, ITAM
Press and Good
Government
Discussant:
Alexander Galetovic
1:00 pm Lunch
2:30 pm ALEJANDRA MIZALA, Universidad de
Chile, and MIGUEL URQUIOLA, Columbia University and NBER
School Markets: The
Impact of Information Approximating Schools Effectiveness
Discussant:
Francisco Gallego, Universidad Católica
3:30 pm JUAN
EBERHARD,
The Educational Transition
and Decreasing Wage Inequality in Chile
Discussant:
Andrea Repetto, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
4:30 pm Adjourn
10/21/08