Conference in Economics and Finance

1st Annual Conference in Economics and Finance 2021

(Virtually) 10 July 2021



Welcome to the website of the 1st Conference on Economics and Finance. Here you will find the program and information relevant to the conference.

The format of each session is the following

  • 30min presentation
  • 10min general Q&A

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Program

All times indicate Lima, Peru Time.

11:30 Keynote Speaker

A Q-Theory of Banks

Saki Bigio

12:30 Presentation RIEF

Morning Session (Macroeconomics & Macro-Finance)

8:50 Introduction

9:00 (Macroeconomics) Dollarization in low inflation environments

Liu Mendoza (Universtiy of Houston)

Q&A

9:45 (Macro-Finance) FX Risk Passthrough in Emerging Markets

Antony Anyosa (The Wharton School)

Q&A

10:30 (Macro-Finance) Is the Working Capital Channel of the Monetary Policy Quantitatively Relevant? A Structural Estimation Approach

Hamilton Galindo (Arizona State University)

Q&A

Afternoon Session (Finance & Macro-Finance)

1:50 Introduction

2:00 (Asset Pricing) Following the Crowd: Anomalies and Crowding by Institutional Investors

Renato Lazo (University of Ottawa)

Q&A

2:45 (Macro-Finance) Evaluating Growth-at-Risk as a tool for monitoring macro- financial risks in the Peruvian economy​ (PDF)

Diego Chicana, Rafael Nivin (Central Bank of Peru)

Q&A