WPEG 2010 PROGRAM
Venue:Auditorium of the Central Bank of Chile.
Address: Morandé 115, 2nd floor.Universidad de Chile metro station.
Friday 7: Development
9:00-9:50Claudia Martinez (Universidad de Chile) Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador(with Nava Ashraf, Dean Yangand Diego Aycinena)
9:50-10:40Claudia Sanhueza Using an Experimental Approach to Identify Labor Market Discrimination Based on Gender and Social Class in a Developing
Economy (with David Bravo and Sergio Urzúa)
10:40-10:50Coffee Break
10:50-11:40Tomas Rau (Universidad de Chile)School Choice and Unobserved Heterogeneity. Evidence from the ChileanSchool System (withCristián Sánchez and Sergio Urzúa)
11:40-12:30Francisco Gallego (PUC) School Choice in Chile: Looking at the Demand Side (with Andrés Hernando)
12:30-1:30Lunch
1:30-2:20Mattia Makovec (CEA Universidad de Chile) Parental decisions in a choice based school system: Analyzing the transition between primary and secondary school(with Alejandra Mizala and Andrés Barrera)
2:20-3:10Nieves Valdés (Universidad de Santiago)Spillovers of Health Education at school on parents' health lifestyles.(with Lucila Berniel and Dolores de la Mata)
3:10-3:20Coffee Break
3:20-4:50 Keynote Address: François Bourguignon (ParisSchool of Economics)
Non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curves, income mobility and social welfare dominance
8:00Dinner at Astrid y Gastón. Antonio Bellet 201, Providencia
Saturday 8: Macroeconomics and Growth
9:00-9:50 Alexandre Janiak (CEA Universidad de Chile)Government size and macroeconomic stability: the role of demographics (with Paulo Santos Monteiro)
9:50-10:40 Sofia Bauducco (Central Bank of Chile)Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy with Limited Commitment (with Francesco Caprioli)
10:40-10:50Coffee Break
10:50-11:40Simge Tarhan (ColbyCollege) Public Investment and Corruptionin an Endogenous Growth Model
11:40-12:30Chris Stefanadis (University of Piraeus) Culture, cronyism, and property rights institutions
12:30-1:30Lunch
1:30-2:20Katarzyna Romaniuk (Universidad de Santiago) A financial approach to optimal interest rate rules: multiple objectives and asymmetries(with Radu Vranceanu)
2:20-3:10Rossana Patron (Universidad de la República) Trade liberalization and factor accumulation in a Heckscher–Ohlin model: Does public skill formation change the conventional results?
3:10-3:20Coffee Break
3:20-4:50Keynote Address: Juan Pablo Nicolini (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)Development and financial crisis