Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 | (Aula Magna, Central Bank of Paraguay)
9:30-10:15 Policy Panel I. Rethinking Taxation
Chair: Javier Charotti (Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Paraguay)
Joao Ayres (Inter-American Development Bank)
Jessica Roldán-Peña (CAF)
Guillermo Vuletin (The World Bank)
10:30-12:30 Policy Panel II. The Reform Agenda in Argentina and Paraguay
Chair: Andy Neumeyer (UTDT)
Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)
Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos (Ministry of Economy and Finance, Paraguay)
Federico Sturzenegger (Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation, Argentina)
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:00 Informality, Enforcement and Firm Growth | Cezar Santos (IADB)
Coauthored with Luiz Brotherhood, Daniel Da Mata, Nezih Guner, and Philipp Kircher
Chair: Pedro Cavalcanti (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-16:30 “A Theory of How Workers Keep Up with Inflation" | Andrés Blanco (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Coauthored with Andres Drenik, Hassan Afrouzi, and Erik Hurst
Chair: Marco Bonomo (Insper)
16:30-16:50 Coffee Break
16:50-18:10 Do Cash Transfers Stimulate the Macroeconomy?” | Valery Ramey (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
Chair: Javier Charotti (Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Paraguay)
19:00 Conference Dinner
Thursday, May 29th, 2025 | Itaipú Dam
9:00-11:00 Visit to the Itaipú Dam
11:00-12.15 “Hegemonic Globalization” | Alberto Martin (CREI & UPF)
Coauthored with Fernando Broner, Josefin Meyer and Christoph Trebesch
Chair: TBA
12:15-14:00 Lunch & Presentation
"The Macroeconomics of Itaipú" | Constantino Hevia (UTDT)
Coauthored with Javier Charotti and Andy Neumeyer
Chair: Francisco Ciocchini (UTDT)
14:00-15:15 “Voting Restrictions, Education and Poverty” | Pedro Cavalcanti (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Coauthored with Tiago Cavalcanti, Felipe Fiedler, Luciene Pereira and Cezar Santos
Chair: Carlos Viana de Carvalho (PUC-Rio)
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:45 “On the Dynamics of a Big Push” | Nicholas Trachter (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Coauthored with Fernando Alvarez and Francisco Buera
Chair: V.V. Chari (University of Minnesota)
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
16:50-18:10 "Trade Shocks in Distorted Economies" | Chang-Tai Hsieh (Chicago Booth)
Chair: Vanessa Alviarez (IADB)
Friday, May 30th, 2025 | Itaipú Dam
08:30-09:45 "Natural Resources and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies: A Curse and a Blessing" | Paulina Restrepo-Echavarría (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Coauthored with Franz Hamann, Juan Camilo Mendez-Vizcaino, Enrique Mendoza
Chair: Francisco Roch (UTDT)
09:45-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-11:15 "The Evolution of the Welfare State" | Diego Huerta (University of Chile)
Chair: Tiago Cavalcanti (University of Cambridge)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 "Investors in Emerging Market Debt: Implications for Sustainability" | Karen Lewis (Wharton School, UPenn)
Chair: Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)
13:45 Lunch | Iguazú Falls
