workshop on industrial policy and development

RIDGE / UBA
WORKSHOP ON INDUSTRIAL POLICY
AND DEVELOPMENT
2015 RIDGE December FORUM
Buenos Aires, Argentina / December 18-19, 2015
Preliminary Program
Scientific Committee
Irene Brambilla (UNLP)
Gustavo Crespi (IADB)
Juan Carlos Hallak (UDESA)
Andrés López (CENIT - UBA)
Fernando Porta (UBA -UNQ-CIECTI)
Martín Rapetti (CEDES-UBA)
Jaime Ros (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
DECEMBER, FRIDAY 18
8:45
Registration
Session 1
9:00 - 10:45
Chair: TBA
• Industrial Policies for Development
Ann Harrison, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Comments:
Andrés López, Director of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, UBA
Ernesto Stein, Senior Economist, Research Department, Inter-American Development
Bank
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Session 2
11:00 - 12:30
Chair: TBA
• Capital Market Financing, Firm Growth, and Firm Size Distribution
Tatiana, Didier, Sergio Schmukler and Ross Levine, World Bank
• Survival in export markets: Does foreign financing matter?
Laura D'Amato, Máximo Sangiacomo and Martín Tobal, BCRA
• Wealth Inequality and the Losses from Financial Frictions
Joaquín Blaum, Brown University
Session 3
12:30 - 14:00
Chair: TBA
• Oportunidades de inserción en cadenas globales de valor no masivas: lecciones
de dos casos en las industrias argentinas de calzado y autopartes
Andrea González and Juan Carlos Hallak, UDESA/CONICET
• Intervención en redes de producción y comercialización de productos
agroindustriales
Roberto Bisang and Jeremías Lachman, IIEP UBA-UNTREF
• The impact of 3D printing on trade and FDI
Ana Lucía Abeliansky, Inmaculada Martinez Zarzoso and Klaus Prettner, University
of Goettingen, Vienna University of Technology
14:00 - 15:30
Lunch
Policy Debate
15:30 - 17:30
How to make vertical industrial policies in Latin America?
Chair: TBA
Eduardo Bitran, Executive Vice President of CORFO, Chile
Marco Llinas, Vice President of the Consejo Privado de Competitividad, Colombia
Ernesto Stein, Senior Economist, Research Department, Inter-American Development
Bank
Plenary Talk
17:45
Industrial Policies and Development
Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University
DECEMBER, SATURDAY19
Session 4
9:30 - 10:45
Chair: TBA
• Agricultural Productivity and Structural Tranformation. Evidence from Brazil
Paula Bustos, CEMFI, Bruno Caprettini, University of Zurich, and Jacopo Ponticelli,
U. Chicago Booth
• Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence
from US Counties
Martín Fiszbein, Boston University
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Session 5
11:00-12:30
Chair: TBA
• Impact of Incubation on Innovative Firms
Jose Ignacio Rivero, UDELAR
• Cluster Development Policies and Firms’ Performance: An Impact Evaluation”
Diego Aboal, Marcelo Perera and Flavia Rovira, CINVE-UDELAR
• Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries: A Single Policy for all Regions?
Carla Daniela Calá, Facultad de Cs Económicas y Sociales Universidad Nacional de
Mar del Plata