23rdECONOMIAPANELMEETING TheWorldBank 1818HStreet,NW Washington,DC20433USA

May67,2011
23rdECONOMIAPANELMEETING
Friday,May6,2011

FIRSTSESSION
9:009:20am Room: 9:2010:10am CoffeeWelcomeandIntroduction EditorJournalEconomia:RobertoRigobon *Paper1 ForeignEntryandtheMexicanBankingSystem,19972007 StepehenHaber (StanfordUniversity/NBER) ,AldoMusacchio (HarvardBusinessSchool/NBER) Presenter:AldoMusacchio amusacchio@hbs.edu LilianaRojasSuarez? ArturoGalindo(IADB)ajgalindo@gmail.com *Paper2 EvaluatingtheImpactofparticipationintheBrazilianPublicSchoolMathematicalOlympiadon mathscoresinstudents'standarizedtests RobertaLobodaBiondi,LigiaVasconcellos (ItauUnibanco), NaercioAquinodeMenezesFilho (InsperandFEA/USP) Presenter:LigiaVasconcellos ligia.vasconcellos@itauunibanco.com.br SamuelBerlinski(IADB)s.berlinski@gmail.com RodrigoSoares(PUCRio)soares@econ.pucrio.br

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 10:1011:00am

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 11:0011:20pm 11:2012:10pm

CoffeeBreak
*Paper3 DecomposingtheGapsBetweenAfrodescendantsandWhitesAlongtheWageDistribution MarisaBucheli,GracielaSanroman (DECONFCSUDELAR) Presenter:MarisaBucheliandGracielSanroman marisa@decon.edu.uy HarryPatrinos(WorldBank)hpatrinos@worldbank.org SamuelFreije(WorldBank)sfreijerodriguez@worldbank.org

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 12:101:20pm 1:202:10pm

LUNCH
*Paper4 DoinSchoolFeedingProgramsHaveImpactonAcademicPerformanceandDropouts? TheCaseofPublicArgentineSchools CeciliaAdrogu,MariaEugeniaOrlicki (CONICET,UdeSA) Presenter:CeciliaAdroguandMariaEugeniaOrlicki cadrogue@conicet.gov.ar Hugoopo(IADB)hugon@iadb.org RaquelBernal(UniversidaddelosAndes)rbernal@uniandes.edu.co *Paper5 GroupEffectsonaFertilityDecision:anApplicationforMedelln,Colombia LeonardoFabioMorales (BancodelaRepublica) lmoralzu@email.unc.edu LuisFelipeLopezCalva(WorldBank)lflopezcalva@worldbank.org SamuelFreije(WorldBank)sfreijerodriguez@worldbank.org

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 2:103:00pm

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3:003:20pm 3:204:10pm

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*Paper6 DoesManagedFloatingReduceMacoeconomicVolatiliy?AStructuralModelAssessment HoracioAguirre (BancoCentraldelaRepblicadeArgentina/U.deSA) haguirre@bcra.gov.ar OscarLanderretche(UniversidaddeChile)landerretche@fen.uchile.cl RobertoRigobn(MIT)rigobon@mit.edu *Paper7 PriceSettinginRetailinginanSmallOpenEconomy FernandoBorraz,LeandroZipitria (BancoCentraldeUruguay/UniversidaddeUruguay) Presenter:FernandoBorraz fborraz@gmail.com

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 4:105:00pm

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor:

RobertoRigobn(MIT)rigobon@mit.edu

Saturday,May7,2011

SECONDSESSION
9:009:50am *Paper8 AComparisonofMonetaryAnchorOptions,includingProductPriceTargeting,forCommodity exportersinLatinAmerica JeffreyA.Frankel (HarvardUniversity) Jeffrey_Frankel@harvard.edu LuisCatao(IMF)LCatao@imf.org UgoPanizza(UNCTAD)Ugo.panizza@unctad.org *Paper9 GrowthandProductivityinLatinAmerica:WhatisMissing? ChristianDaude (OECDDevelopmentCentre) christian.daude@oecd.org DanielOrtega(IESA)Daniel.Ortega@iesa.edu.ve MarcelaEslava(UniversidaddelosAndes/LACEA)meslava@uniandes.edu.co

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 9:5010:40am

Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 10:4011:00am

CoffeeBreak

11:0011:50am *Paper10 AdaptingNaturalResourceIntensiveEnterprisesunderGlobalWarminginLatinAmerica S.NiggolSeo (UniversityofSydney) niggol.seo@sydney.edu.au Room: Discussant: AssociateEditor: 12:002:00pm Room:

SubhraBhattacharjee(UNDP)subhra.bhattacharjee@undp.org FranciscoRodriguez(UNDP)francisco.rodriguez@undp.org * 20minutesofPaper10minutesfordiscussantand20minutesopenfloor(approx.)

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