Preliminary Agenda
The 2026 International Conference on Public Economic Theory
Hosted by Fundação Getulio Vargas · Rio de Janeiro · July 20-23
Agenda
July 20, Monday
Afternoon
Welcome Cocktail
Opening Lecture
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Lars HansenThe University of Chicago
Agenda
July 21, Tuesday
Morning
Welcome Desk and Coffee
Parallel Sessions
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Carola TheuniszErasmus School of EconomicsEnvironmental Bank Regulation and Corporate Lending Technology
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Ariaster ChimeliFEA-USPTrading Lives: Firm Dynamics, Pollution, and Mortality in the Wake of the China Shock
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Marcelo Sant'AnnaFGV EPGEPowerful Forests: The Welfare Implications of Deforestation for the Power Sector
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Klenio BarbosaSKEMA Business SchoolFinancing Climate Change Mitigation Projects: Cost and Environmental Performance of Government Green Bonds
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Dimas FazioNUSCourt Quality and Propagation of Supply Chain Shocks
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Gil NogueiraBanco de PortugalJudicial Enforcement, Credit Frictions, and the Transmission of Bankruptcy through Firm Networks
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Pedro AmoniInsperJudicial Discretion, Credit, and the Real Economy
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Rafael FerreiraFEA USPBankruptcy Outcomes in Congested Courts: Evidence from Brazil
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Elcyon LimaUERJMacroeconomic Effects of Subsidized Credit
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Marco CavalcantiIPEAFiscal Multipliers in an Emerging Economy.
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Felipe Morelli da SilvaIPEAEconomic and Sectoral Impacts of a Carbon Market in Brazil: A Dynamic Recursive Computable General Equilibrium Analysis.
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Thiago MartinezIPEA and UERJRegional Subsidies in Investment Networks.
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Xinyang WangITAMEquilibrium Stability and Uniqueness with a Large Number of Commodities and Patient Consumers
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Wilfredo SosaUCBA theoretical mathematical model for endogenous growth including the environment
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Jean-Pierre DrugeonPSETowards an Axiomatic Foundation for Recursive Utility under Taste Ambiguity
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Kaosu MatsumoriHitotsubashi UniversityInterpersonal Comparison of Utility from Neural Signals: Implications for Welfare Aggregation and Redistribution
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Endre CsókaAlfréd Rényi Institute of MathematicsEfficiency and Collusion-Proofness in Dynamic Mechanism Design
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Andrew ChoiUniversity of MichiganProviding Certainty
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Constantine SorokinUniversity of GlasgowAdverse Selection in Teams
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Ricardo FonsecaBogotaKeeping Experts Honest
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Bruno OgavaFGV EPGEUniversal Preschool and Educational Inequality: Evidence from Brazil
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Caio MiguezFGV EPGEMarginal Treatment Effects of Childcare on Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Brazil
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Vitor PereiraUFRJThe Effects of Community-Based Preschool on Child Development in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
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Gabriel SallumFGV EPGESchool Funding, Teacher’s Labor Market, and Student Outcomes
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Sebastian KoehneKiel UniversityRedistribution with unequal life expectancy
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Carlos da CostaFGV EPGEOptimal Risk Sharing and Incentive Provision in Social Security Systems
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Luca MichelettoUniversity of MilanPredistribution, redistribution, and the education of the Joneses
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Aart GerritsenErasmus School of EconomicsTo redistribute or to predistribute? The minimum wage versus income taxation when workers differ in both wages and working hours
Coffee Break
Keynote Speaker
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James HeckmanThe University of Chicago
Lunch Break
Agenda
July 21, Tuesday
Afternoon
Parallel Sessions
Opening Remarks by Marcelo Justus and Daniel Cerqueira
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Leonardo Schmitz MoscaIPARDESDirect and Indirect Effects of the Implementation of the Federal Penitentiary System on Crime in Brazil.
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Eduardo AlmeidaUFJFEstimation of the Deterrence Effect of the Police Using the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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Bruno TruzziPUC Campinas / IPEACash Transfers, Human Capital, and Youth Lethal Violence: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Bolsa Trabalho Program in Osasco, Brazil
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Emilson SilvaAucklandDynamics of fiscal habits and soft budgets in federations
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Marcio GarciaPUC RioMeasuring Financial Subsidies to SOEs: A New Asset Return-Based Framework
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Johan WillnerÅbo Akademi UniversityState Ownership in Mixed Markets – an Instrument for Social Justice?
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Mikhail PakhninUniversitat de les Illes BalearsCarbon Budget Depletion under Country Heterogeneity
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Hassan BenchekrounMcGill UniversityWhen OPEC Leads and the Fringe Follows: A Climate Story
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Guillaume RogerMonash UniversityPreemption equilibrium in a storage game
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Felipe LobelDukeMarket Power and VAT Incidence Along the Production Network
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Perla RochaEPGEWho Pays the Price? Distributional Effects of Tax Uniformity in a Network Economy
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Miguel OrrilloIPEASector-Differentiated Tax Exemptions in Investment Networks
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Gustavo Quinderé SaraivaPUC ChileManipulation of Attractiveness in Two-Sided Matching Markets
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Gabriela DenisUniversidad de ChileMulti-level Matching Markets
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Lorena HakakFGV RIMarriage and Education Decisions in Post-Migration Settings
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Marcos Poplawski-RibeiroIMFWelfare Analysis of Income-Stabilization Policies in a HANK Model with Unemployment Risk
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Stéphane BouchéUniversitat de les Illes BalearsWealth Distribution in the Perpetual Youth Model
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Rodrigo RaadUFMGOn Time Consistency and Equilibrium Existence in a Ramsey-Friedman-Stackelberg Model
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
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Luca ColomboUniversità Cattolica del Sacro CuoreConflict Over Renewable Energy Facilities, Multiple Externalities and Community Ownership
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Rogerio MazaliUNBLarge Prosumers in Energy Markets Subject to Weather Risk
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Jorge ZamoranoUniversidad de Santiago de ChileExtended Producer Responsibility under Uncertainty and Market Power
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Santiago PintoFederal Reserve Bank of RichmondCorporate Income Tax, Formula Apportionment, and Multi-regional Firms
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Igo DobbeErasmus University RotterdamOptimal taxation of risky capital
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Luca ColomboRennes School of BusinessEfficiency-Inducing Lump Sum Taxation in Non-renewable Resource Industries
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Paolo NaticchioniUniversità Roma TreRemote Work and Labor Market Power
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Caio BloiseInsperThe Labor-Market Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer with Informality
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Daniele PatitiKing's College LondonRetirement Policy, Workforce Ageing, and Regional Productivity
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Ricardo MartinezUniversidad de GranadaProportional redistribution
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Danilo CoelhoIPEASelecting Winners or Excluding Losers: A Duality Approach to Bilateral Multiwinner Compromise
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Yufei LiTsinghua UniversityThe Participation Cost of Rank-Consistent Bayesian Scoring
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Pedro JaraUniversidad de Santiago de ChilePublic Coordination in Small Social Movements
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Oscar VolijBen Gurion UniversityBeauty Contests: Beyond Gaussian Uncertainty
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Lucas de LaraColumbia UniversityRational Choice Overload
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Rosina RodriguezUniversidad de la RepúblicaWho Borrows from Whom? Market Segmentation in Consumer Loans
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Rafael Costa LimaUFPEBuy now, pay later
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Myrna WoodersVanderbilt UniversitySmall group effectiveness, a representative consumer, and pricing objects
Coffee Break
Policy Session: Education
Speakers TBD
Policy Session: TBD
Speakers TBD
Agenda
July 22, Wednesday
Morning
Coffee
Parallel Sessions
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Michael FrançaInsper50 Shades of Guilt: Exploring the Role of Race in Drug Trafficking Indictment in Brazil
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Alexandre MarinhoIPEA / UERJTechnical efficiency in employment rates among uneducated Black Women across Brazilian Macro-Regions: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
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Vivian NascimentoUERJHigher Education, Affirmative Action Policies, and the Trajectories of the Black Brazilian Population in the Labor Market
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Eduardo FagundesIPEAAffirmative Action and Selection into Federal Public Careers: Evidence from a Nationwide Exam in Brazil
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Alexander NesterovHSE University, St.PetersburgBalancing Incentives and Efficiency via Constrained Deferred Acceptance
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Inacio BoUniversity of MacauVisibly Fair Mechanisms
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Manshu KhannaHSE University, St.PetersburgReserve System with Beneficiary - Share Guarantee
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Guillaume HaeringerBaruch CollegeEpistemic Stability for Assignment Problems
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Yizhi WangTianjin UniversityTournament with Network Spillovers
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Guillaume CheikbossianUniversité de MontpellierEvolutionary branching of social preferences in a public good provision game
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Andreas OrlandCorvinus University of BudapestPlaying Prisoner’s Dilemma Games with a Large Language Model
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João TherezeDuke University (Fuqua)Delegated Contracting
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Lucas MaestriFGV EPGETBD
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Henrique de OliveiraFGV EESPDynamic Information Design via Deviation Rules
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Caio LorecchioUniversity of BarcelonaMultilateral Bargaining with Informational Spillovers
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Rodrigo MyiamotoFGV EPGEBlaming the Wrong Policymaker? Fiscal Imbalances Behind Brazil’s Inflation Target Misses
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André LelisFGV EPGEFiscal-Monetary Policy Interactions in Brazil: Evidence from a Model with Partial Fiscal Backing
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Rafael Chaves SantosFGV EPGETheory Meets Algorithms: Inflation Forecasting in Brazil
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Enrico GiarettaFGV EPGEOptimal Inflation Targets under Fiscal Fragility and Imperfect Information
Coffee Break
Keynote Speakers
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Pierre-André ChiapporiColumbia University
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Flávio CunhaRice University
Lunch Break
Agenda
July 22, Wednesday
Afternoon
Parallel Sessions
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Rafael AraujoFGV EESPWhen Clouds Go Dry: An Integrated Model of Deforestation, Rainfall, and Agriculture
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Juliano AssunçãoPUC Rio and CPIThe Role of Sanctions and Spillovers in Forest Conservation
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Francisco CostaFGV EPGEConservation Policy with Political Resistance
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Carlos CostaFGV EPGEGender-specific subsidies and female empowerment in optimal taxation.
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Andrea FloresFGV EPGEIntrahousehold Inequality, Family Structure, and Public Policy.
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Paula PeredaUSPMothers, Daughters, and the Sexual Division of Labor
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Camila SoaresIPEAEarly Childhood Development in Vulnerable Neighborhoods: the case of São Paulo.
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Joan RoblesUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaTime Partitioning in Non-Recombining HJM Trees for Prepayable Loan Valuation
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Felipe IachanFGV EPGESpatial Risk Premia in Residential Real Estate
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Diego de Sousa RodriguesQuebecInventories matter for the transmission of monetary policy: uncovering the cost-of-carry channel
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Bruno AmatWisconsinWhen Wholesalers Join the Cartel: Prices, Markups, and Rent Sharing
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Vinícius TinéPIMESPolitical accountability with uncertainty in voter information
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Bernd TheilenUniversitat Rovira i VirgiliDownward risk, upward opportunity, and support for radical parties
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Daniel GottliebUSC MarshallRegulating Inaction: The Case of Price Walking
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Henique Castro PiresHBSIncentives and Selection
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Chistopher SandamannLSEMarket Structure and Adverse Selection
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Alan MillerWestern UniversityHolding Aggregation
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Luciano de CastroUniversity of Iowa (Tippie)Are Firms Risk Averse
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Alvaro SandroniNorthwestern University (Kellogg)
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
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Paola LabrecciosaESSCA School of ManagementThe Virtue of Double Marginalization: Vertical Structure and the Management of Renewable Resources
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Elshan GarashliUniversity of GrazBargaining Power Weights Are Not Portable: Realized Position and Protocol Choice in Supply Chains
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Eddie SchleeArizona State UniversityOptimal Public-Good Regulation with Consumer Risk Aversion and Income Effects
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Pierre PestieauUniversité de LiègePublic pensions and LTC insurance with family solidarity
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Helmuth CremerToulouse School of EconomicsProvision and pricing of childcare in an extensive margin optimal tax model
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Leandro LyraUERJ/SenadoThe Design of Optimally Balanced Pay-as-you-go Social Security Systems
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João Gabriel GarcezEPGEEarmarking for Kin: Family Networks and Pork Barrel in Brazil
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Eduardo FabresUFRGSParty Discipline, Coordination and Political Survival
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Afik bin OslanMax Planck InstitutePlay Nice, Party Hard
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Chiara CantaToulouse Business SchoolPlatform entry and price negotiation in the healthcare sector
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Robert SomogyiBudapest University of Technology and EconomicsAI summaries and content discovery
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Juan D. Moreno-TerneroUniversidad Pablo de OlavideNew methods to compensate artists in music streaming platforms
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Taric Latif PadovaniEPGEOptimal Provision of Urban Infrastructure: Theory and Evidence from Brazilian Cities
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Katherine CuffMcMaster UniversityEquilibrium Excess Demand in the Low Income Rental Housing Market: Theory and Experimental Evidence
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Yixuan ShiMax PlanckCommunication Leakage, Coordination and Effort in Team Competition
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Daniel HabermacherUniversidad de los Andes, ChileA Theory of Policy Influence
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Rafael VeielUniversity of Texas at AustinStrong Information Design
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Daniel FogoBNDESInvestment Stimulus Policy in Networks
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João Maria de OliveiraIPEAConsumption Taxation, Productivity, and Tax Reform in Brazil: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
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Gil NavarroFGV EPGEShould Governments Tax Commodities Uniformly? Theory and Evidence from Brazil
Coffee Break
Policy Session: TBD
Speakers TBD
Policy Session: TBD
Speakers TBD
Conference Dinner
Agenda
July 23, Thursday
Morning
Coffee
Parallel Sessions
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Gustavo OliveiraEPGEVoting for Managers: Selection Methods in Public Schools
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Georgy ArtemovUniversity of MelbourneZoned Out: The Long-Term Consequences of School Choice for Wealth Segregation
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Sophie MathesFGV EPGELabor Market Power and Spatial Policies
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Tatsuya KusumiUniversity of TokyoTaming Tax Competition: The Role of Urban Amenities
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Robson SoaresTCE PRPublic Sector Financing Needs and the Multi-Year Plan Maturity Index in the Municipalities of Paraná
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Rafael Roos GuthmannUAH, SantiagoPolitical Polycentrism and the Origins of Inclusive Institutions
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Fabio MarianiUCLouvainThe shadow of Rome: Fascism, nation building and the political legacy of history
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Felipe SigristUSPThe Market for Contracted Violence: A Microeconomic Approach to Hired Gunmen
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Humberto MartinezUniversidad de ChileCapital controls on outflows: theory and policy implications
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Yvan BecardPUC RioIs Public Spending Regressive?
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Caio MachadoPUC ChileManaging overreaction during a run
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Ana Elisa PereiraUniversidad de los Andes, ChileDynamic Network Effects with Fear of Missing Out
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Benjamin MattaFGV EESPThe Peace-War Cycle
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Nizar AllouchUniversity of KentDefault Propagation in Financial Networks
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Shai Oliveira-VazEPGECan Pasture Recovery Curb Deforestation in Brazil? Evidence from a Dynamic Model
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Caio Moretz-SohnEPGEBetween Regularization and Contestation: Brazil's Rural Environmental Registry and Land-Use Change in the Amazon
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Carlos Guilherme CabrineFGV EPGEEnvironmental Regulation and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from a developing economy
Coffee Break
Keynote Speakers
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Steven BerryYale University
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TBD
Lunch Break
Agenda
July 23, Thursday
Afternoon | In honor of Aloísio Araujo (80th Birthday)
Keynote Speakers
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Bernard SalaniéColumbia University
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Sudipta SarangiVirginia Tech
Coffee Break
TBD
Coffee Break
Policy Session: TBD
Speakers TBD
Policy Session: TBD
Speakers TBD

