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Papers presented at the 31st Annual Conference on Economics

August 30, 2016
Faculty members from the School of Management and Social Sciences presented seven papers at the 31st Annual Economics Conference. This event, organized by the Central Bank of Uruguay, took place on August 18 and 19, 2016, in Montevideo. All of the papers were published in the proceedings of this peer-reviewed conference.

The articles are:

- “Juvenile incarceration and crime after release: Evidence from a harsher law” by Dr. Néstor Gandelman, academic coordinator of Economics and professor of Principles of Economics at the school, and Dr. Ignacio Munyo, director of the Center for Economics, Society, and Business at the Montevideo Institute of Business Studies (IEEM) of the University of Montevideo.

- “Household education spending in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from income and expenditure surveys” by Santiago Acerenza, Research Assistant in the Department of Economics at the faculty, and Dr. Néstor Gandelman.

- “Peer effects in the development of capabilities in adolescence” by Ana Balsa, professor at the Faculty of Business Sciences and Economics at the University of Montevideo, Dr. Néstor Gandelman, and Dr. Flavia Roldán, research professor of Economics at the faculty.

- “Identification of observed and unobserved taste: An application to college-games tickets using contingent valuation” by Dr. Francisco Rosas, professor of Statistics and Econometrics and economics researcher at the faculty, Santiago Acerenza, and Prof. Peter F. Orazem, professor in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University.

- “How a cartel operates. Evidence from the graphite electrode cartel from a social network perspective” by Dr. Carlos Ponce, faculty member at the School of Economics and Business at Alberto Hurtado University, Chile, and Dr. Flavia Roldán.

- “Do police displace crime? The effect of the favela pacification programme Rio de Janeiro” by Emiliano Tealde, researcher and professor of Mathematical Economics Methods 1 and 2 at the faculty.

- “Measuring Knowledge Spillovers in Uruguay’s Service Sector: The Contribution of Free Trade Zones” by Juan Labraga, associate professor of International Trade at the faculty.

The papers were accepted in July 2016.