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Call for Papers for the 30th Annual Conference on Economics

August 24, 2015
Four papers by faculty members from the School of Management and Social Sciences were presented at the 30th Annual Economics Conference, organized by the Central Bank of Uruguay. The event took place on August 3 and 4, 2015, in Montevideo. The papers were published in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings.

The articles are:

-“Cohort, age, and business cycle effects in entrepreneurship in Latin America”by Daniel Bukstein, B.A., professor of Principles of Economics in the School of Business and Social Sciences and a graduate of the Master’s in Economics program, and Dr. Néstor Gandelman, academic coordinator of Economics in the School of Business and Social Sciences. Dr. Gandelman presented the paper.

“Response of crop yields to output prices: a Bayesian approach to complement the duality theory econometrics”by Dr. Juan Francisco Rosas, professor of Econometrics and Research Design at the School of Management and Social Sciences and research associate at the Center for Economic Research (CINVE), together with Dr. Dermot Hayes and Dr. Sergio Lence, professors in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. Dr. Rosas presented the paper.

-“Trade Effects of Sanitary Measures Applied to MERCOSUR Beef Exports: The Importance of Incorporating Information Services”by Natalia Ferreira Coímbra, lecturer and researcher in the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic, and Juan Labraga, associate professor of International Trade at the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences. Mr. Labraga presented the paper.

-“Innovation and Competitive Intensity: Uruguay 2004–2012”by Dr. Flavia Roldán, researcher in the Economics Department of the School of Management and Social Sciences, and Dr. Carlos Ponce, faculty member at the School of Economics and Business at Alberto Hurtado University, Chile. Dr. Roldán presented the paper.

The articles were accepted in July 2015.