| Day One: | Growth in Brazil |
8:30-9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 am | Opening Remarks
Luis Serven, Research Manager (World Bank)
Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, President (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
Roberto Castelo Branco (Vale) | |
9:15-10:30 am | Marcelo Neri (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
"Poverty and Growth"
Discussant: Jose Marcio Camargo (PUC-RJ) and Fernando Veloso (IBMEC) | |
10:30-10:45 am | Break | |
10:45-12:00 pm | Aloisio Araujo (Fundacao Getulio Vargas/IMPA)
“Credit"
Discussant: Jose Scheinkman (Princeton University) | |
12:00-12:15 pm | Break | |
12:15-1:30 pm | Jose Scheinkman (Princeton University)
“The Informal Sector"
Discussant: Arminio Fraga (PUC-RJ and Gavea Partners) | |
| 1:30-3:00 pm | Lunch |
| 3:00-4:15 pm | Marc Muendler (University of California, San Diego)
"Trade and Productivity"
Discussant: Armando Castellar (IPEA) |
| 4:15-4:30 pm | Break |
| 4:30-5:45 pm | Pedro Ferreira (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
"Infrastructure"
Discussant: Joaquin Levy (Secretaria da Fazenda do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) |
| Day Two: | Growth Around the World |
8:30-9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00-10:00 am | Santiago Levy (Inter-American Bank)
"Can Social Programs Reduce Productivity and Growth? A Hypothesis for Mexico"
Discussant: Roger Gordon (University of California, San Diego) |
10:00-10:15 am | Break |
10:15-11:15 am | Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
"Decentralization and Water Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-Drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil"
joint with Molly Lipscomb
Discussant: Claudio Ferraz (IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada)) |
11:15-11:30 am | Break |
11:30-12:30 pm | Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College)
“Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate Impacts”
joint with Dean Karlan
Discussant: Marcos de Carvalho Chamon (IMF)
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12:30-2:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00-3:00 pm | Miriam Bruhn (World Bank)
"License to Sell: The Effect of Business Registration Reform on Entrepreneurial Activity in Mexico"
Discussant: Marcos Rangel (Chicago Public Policy) | |
3:00-3:15 pm | Break |
3:15-4:15 pm | Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
"Product Quality at the Plant Level: Evidence from Columbia"
joint with Maurice Kugler
Discussant: John Sutton (LSE) | |
4:15-4:30 pm | Break | |
4:30-5:30 pm | Francisco Rodriguez (Wesleyan)
“The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela
joint with Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, and Daniel Ortega
Discussant: Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato di Tella) | |
Queries relating to timetabling and the program should be addressed to: Chang-Tai Hsieh (chsieh@econ.Berkeley.edu)
Robin Burgess (r.burgess@lse.ac.uk ) Mary Hallward-Driemeier (Mhallward@worldbank.org) |
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