Fernando Alvarez & Nancy Birdsall

October, Saturday 29th | 14:30-16:30 hs

Double Keynote Address KS6/KS7

Grand Amphitheatre

 
 
 

Keynote Address by Fernando Alvarez:

Implications of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade

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Keynote Address by Nancy Birdsall:

Beyond Social Policy: An Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America

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Chair: Prof. Renato Flores, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro

 
 

Chair: Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank

 
 
 
 

Fernando Alvarez

 

Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago

 

Prior to teaching at Chicago, Fernando Alvarez was an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and from 1997 to 1999 he was also a Visiting Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. Professor Alvarez served in the Research Department at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. From 2000 to 2002 he was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. As part of his professional activities, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and has been editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

   
 
 
 
 

Nancy Birdsall

 

Founding President of the Center for Global Development

 

Prior to launching the Center for Global Development, Dr. Birdsall served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Before joining the Inter-American Development Bank, Dr. Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department.