CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Day 1: Thursday, December 1
08:30 - 08:45 Welcome Address
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
Francisco Mayorga
Universidad Privada Boliviana
Diego Escobari
Sociedad de Economistas de Bolivia and UTRGV
08:45 - 09:50 Morning Keynote Address
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
Session chair: Oscar Molina Tejerina (UPB-SEBOL)
Los desafíos que genera el contexto económico mundial para América Latina
José Antonio Ocampo
Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
09:50 - 11:10 Parallel Session A1: Macroeconomic Policy and Foreign Aid
Location: WOW Room
Session chair: Pablo Mendieta (CAINCO)
Punto de equilibrio en la generación de divisas por la comercialización de hidrocarburos y derivados
Alejandro Galoppo (Independent)
Foreign Aid and Structural Change
Calumn Hamilton (University of Groningen)
Poor taxation on the rich: An examination of wealth tax in Bolivia
Pablo Mendieta (Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Santa Cruz)
09:50 - 11:10 Parallel Session A2: Labor Markets, Informality, and Gender Issues
Location: Oruro Room
Session chair: Mauricio Tejada (UAH)
Mujer indígena y la desigualdad de oportunidades en Bolivia
Ernesto Bernal (Universidad Técnica de Oruro)
Calidad de Empleo en mujeres trabajadoras por cuenta propia
Juan Iriarte (Universidad Privada Boliviana)
Working and Saving Informally
Mauricio Tejada (Universidad Alberto Hurtado)
09:50 - 11:10 Remote Parallel Session R1: Social protection and inequality
Location: A3 (Diagonal to WOW Room)
Session chair: Leonardo Orihuela (EAFIT)
The impact of economic growth and social protection expenditure on poverty reduction: Panel VAR evidence from Latin American countries
Elmer Sánchez-Dávila (University of Talca)
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data
Fernando Rios-Avila (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College)
Financial incentives for maternal and child care: Impact of a national program in Bolivia
Leonardo Orihuela (Universidad EAFIT)
09:50 - 11:10 Book Exhibition - Sponsored by Universidad Católica Boliviana
The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960–2017
Location: La Paz Auditorium
Presentación del libro, lecciones aprendidas
Timothy Kehoe (University of Minnesota)
El caso boliviano
Carlos Gustavo Machicado (Director de la Carrera de Economía de la Universidad Católica Boliviana)
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Location: Central Garden - Jardín Central
11:30 - 12:30 Invited session - COSUDE-BID-ONU Mujeres
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
¿Cómo enfrentar los retos del mercado laboral?: la experiencia boliviana en programas de formación y empleo
Amparo Ergueta (Embajada Suiza en Bolivia)
Manuel Urquidi (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo)
Hacia la igualdad de género en servicios financieros: diagnóstico y propuesta
Maud Ritz (ONU Mujeres)
Reynaldo Marconi (Consultor independiente)
11:30 - 12:30 Invited session - ORBITA
Location: La Paz Auditorium Session chair: Edgar Pacheco (SDSN Bolivia)
El Índice Municipal de Potencial Turístico en Bolivia
Lykke E. Andersen (SDSN Bolivia)
Las huellas ambientales del turismo en Bolivia
Valeria Revilla Calderón ()
Diseño de una estrategia de incentivos económicos hacia las aerolíneas para generar un impacto en el flujo de turistas. Caso: Aeropuerto internacional de El Alto
Loreley Adriana Huanca Valdez (Becaria ORBITA)
Análisis de una relación de simbiosis de un recurso natural y su impacto en el desarrollo urbano. Caso: Cerro Rico y la Villa Imperial de Potosí
Ana Patricia Huanca Paco (Becaria ORBITA)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Location: Soccer Field - Cancha de Fútbol
13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Session B1: Industrial Economics and Trade
Location: Oruro Room
Session chair: Carlos Gustavo Machicado (UCB)
Eficiencia técnica y asignativa en la industria manufacturera boliviana
Carlos Gustavo Machicado (Universidad Católica Boliviana)
Firm growth, age and the intensity of international trade
Segundo Camino-Mogro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Session B2: Environment and vulnerabilities
Location: WOW Room
Session chair: Lykke E. Andersen (SDSN Bolivia)
Leaving the most vulnerable behind? School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic and pre-existing life struggles in Bolivia
Sara Santander (Universidad Privada Boliviana)
Bolivia’s Net-Zero Path: Investment needs, challenges, and opportunities
Lykke Andersen (SDSN Bolivia)
Same flood, different story: On the heterogeneous effects of natural disasters among those inhabitants of at-risk areas
Rodrigo Lopez Ergueta (Universidad Privada Boliviana)
13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Session B3: Empirical Urban Economics
Location: La Paz Auditorium
Session chair: Diego Escobari (SEBOL-UTRGV)
What were the Conditions of some Bolivian Cities' Peripheric Households during an Electricity Supporting Scheme due to the COVID Pandemic? A Survey Analysis
Andrea Alcaraz Rivero (Universidad Privada Boliviana)
Edwin Malagón (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo)
Price Exuberance and Contagion across Housing Markets: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas
Diego Escobari (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Willingness to Pay for Improved Water Service: Evidence from Urban Peru
Francisco Galarza (Universidad del Pacifico)
15:00 - 16:00 Plenary session - Fundación INESAD
Panel de debate: Situación y Perspectivas del Sistema de Pensiones Boliviano
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos Session chair: Beatriz Muriel (INESAD)
Giovanna Hurtado (Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Laboral y Agrario (CEDLA))
Gonzalo Rodríguez (Diputado Nacional por el departamento de Cochabamba)
Ramiro Gamboa (Investigador Asociado de INESAD.)
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
16:20 - 17:20 Plenary session - ABCE/SEBOL
Diálogos sobre coyuntura económica de Bolivia
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos Session chair: Oscar Molina (ABCE-UPB-SEBOL)
Victoria Nuguer (BID)
Juan Antonio Morales (ABCE - UCB)
Beatriz Muriel (ABCE-INESAD)
Chris Walker (IMF)
17:20 - 18:20 Afternoon Keynote Address
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
Session chair: Diego Escobari (SEBOL-UTRGV)
The Transmission of Commodity Price Super-Cycles: Labor Market and Inequality
Sergio Urzúa
University of Maryland
20:00 - 21:30 Conference Dinner (Presenters and Special Guests Only)
Location: Margarita Restaurant
Day 2: Friday, December 2
08:45 - 09:50 Morning Keynote Address
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
Session chair: Lykke E. Andersen (SDSN Bolivia)
Economía Donut - Herramientas para transformar lugares
Carlota Sanz
Dougnut Economics Action Lab
09:50 - 11:10 Parallel Session C1: Experimental Economics
Location: Oruro Room
Session chair: Joaquín Morales (SEBOL-UPB)
To inspire and to inform: The role of role models
Marcos Agurto Adrianzén (Universidad de Piura),
What nudges consumers towards organic food? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bolivia
Soraya Roman (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
Do coercive and reputational institutions build up interpersonal trust? Experimental evidence from informal traders in Bolivia
Joaquin Morales Belpaire (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
09:50 - 11:10 Parallel Session C2: Multidimensional Approaches to Poverty and Well-being
Location: WOW Room
Session chair: Ricardo Nogales (SEBOL-UPB)
Evolution of Multidimensional Energy Poverty Risk in Bolivia between 2005-2019
Sergio Mansilla Bustamante (Fundación INESAD),
On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
Ricardo Nogales (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
Equality of opportunity, different well-being approaches for public policy improvement
Santiago Albarracin (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
09:50 - 11:10 Parallel Session C3: Advances in Data Science, Digital Education and Mathematical Economics
Location: La Paz Auditorium
Session chair: Pamela Córdova (UPB)
Developing Skills to beat Mathematics: JaqueMate Project
Pamela Córdova (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
Event Detection Using Hierarchical Clustering on Stock Indexes
Mauro Delboy (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
Bankruptcy Equilibrium: Efficiency and Contagion
J. Mauricio Villalba (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Location: Central Garden - Jardín Central
11:30 - 12:30 Special Session: SDSN Bolivia and UPB
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos Session chair: Jhanira Rodriguez (SDSN Bolivia)
Race to Zero: Strategies for Emissions Reductions at UPB
In this session we present the report on UPBs greenhouse gas emissions, and we invite students, researchers and authorities to help elaborate emissions reduction strategies in an interactive session.
11:30 - 12:30 Invited session - BOWEN
Location: La Paz Auditorium Session chair: Solange Sardan (BOWEN)
Technical and soft skills for graduate school
Marcela Eslava
Universidad de los Andes
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Location: Soccer Field - Cancha de Fútbol
13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Session D1: History, social norms and persistent institutions
Location: La Paz Auditorium
Session chair: Antonio Saravia (Mercer University)
The Legacy of Resistance. Evidence from the Chilean Invasion of Peru in the XIX Century
Cesar Huaroto (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile),
You play the way you live: Aggressive soccer play and social capital
Antonio Saravia (Mercer University),
Precios y subsidios a los hidrocarburos en Bolivia 1986 - 2025
Maurico Medinacelli (Private consultant),
13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Session D2: Spread and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
Location: WOW Room
Session chair: Andrea Alcaraz (UPB)
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Risk of Corruption
Daniel Prudencio (Tecnologico de Monterrey),
The role of urban rail transport in the spread of coronavirus: evidence from Line 1 of the Lima Metro
Francisco Galarza (Universidad del Pacifico),
An electricity cost supporting scheme on domestic consumption levels and household welfare: Quasi-experimental evidence from six Bolivian cities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Andrea Alcaraz Rivero (Universidad Privada Boliviana),
13:30 - 15:00 Remote Parallel Session R2: Gaps in labor markets
Location: Oruro Room
Session chair: Fabiola Saavedra (SEBOL-BOWEN)
The Efficiency Legacy of Higher Education Institutions in the Labor Market
Fabiola Saavedra Caballero (UCLouvain- SEBOL - BOWEN),
Legal Gender Equality as a Catalyst for Convergence
Can Sever (International Monetary Fund),
Who wins and losses when there is an increase in the minimum wage? Closing the ethnic income gaps in Peru
Carlos Chavez Padilla (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos),
15:00 - 16:00 Plenary session - CAF banco de desarrollo de América Latina
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos Session chair: Sergio Daga (SEBOL-UPSA)
RED 2021 - Caminos para la Intergración
Lian Allub
CAF - Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
Location: Central Garden - Jardín Central
16:20 - 17:20 Plenary session - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos Session chair: Joaquín Morales (SEBOL)
Brecha de género en LAC y el impacto de la covid-19
Manuel Urquidi & Miguel Chalup
Banco Interamericano de Desarollo
Teletrabajo en Bolivia 2020-2021
Manuel Urquidi & Liliana Serrate
Banco Interamericano de Desarollo
De la pandemia a la sindemia: Análisis de los retos futuros para Bolivia
Luis Buscarons
Banco Interamericano de Desarollo
17:20 - 18:20 Afternoon Keynote Address
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
Session chair: Beatriz Muriel (INESAD)
Desarrollo empresarial y desigualdad en América Latina
Marcela Eslava
Universidad de los Andes
18:30 - 19:30 Farewell Cocktail
Location: Convention Center - Centro de Eventos
Ballet Folklórico UPB