VI International Meeting of Economics DEC-EPN Ecuador (ONLINE)

The Latin America and Economics of Innovation Working Groups (LAWG-EIWG) invites you to the VI International Meeting of Economics (VI Encuentro de Economía), organized by the Department of Quantitative Economics (DEC) of the National Polytechnic School (EPN) of Quito, Ecuador.

The Meeting is a biannual event that seeks to contribute to the economic debate through the presentation of papers with a strong focus on quantitative researches. The event will take place between the 1st and 3rd september, 2021 (online) and is aimed at scholars, professors and students who work in the economic field and other related disciplines.

The topics that will be addressed in this event are the following:

• Industrial Economics;
• Welfare Economics;
• Regional Economics;
• Econometrics;
• Economic policy;
• Environmental and Ecological Economics;
• Finance;
• Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition, the LAWG and the EIWG will host a special session with Gabriel Porcile (UN-ECLAC) and Danilo Spinola (Birmingham City University) on the impact of the pandemic on economic thinking and on the way economic research is performed. In particular, we will debate how the crisis has changed this discipline either at the theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary level, and which are the prospect for young scholars in the near future.

Deadline for submissions is July 10, 2021. More information about the event is available here (in Spanish) .