Desarrollamos proyectos propios de investigación y promovemos la interacción de académicos de diversas áreas de la economía, con particular énfasis en microeconomía.
Asimismo, difundimos los hallazgos y el aporte de la ciencia económica mediante la docencia y el desarrollo de iniciativas de diseminación.
Lima Summer School in Economics
Lima School of Economics, in association with Vancouver School of Economics, organizes the Lima Summer School in Economics on a yearly basis. Participants can attend mini courses on advanced and relevant topics in Economics taught by leading international researchers. Lima Summer School is a great opportunity for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in Latin America to interact with and learn from a world-class faculty. It also offers recent graduates and practitioners in economics the opportunity to develop and strengthen their areas of expertise.
Summer School 2019
The 2019 Lima Summer School in Economics will include the following topics: Empirical Research in Economic History: Recent Topics and Methodologies, Economics of Strategy, and The Economics of Incentives in Public and Private Organizations. The Faculty is composed by professors from Vancouver School of Economics as well as by associated members of Lima School of Economics.
Faculty members
- Dr. Mauricio Drelichman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, and a Fellow in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from Northwestern University. He is a co-author of “Lending to the Borrower from Hell” (Princeton, 2014), which combines detailed archival research with international economics theory to explore the nature of sovereign defaults in the sixteenth century, highlighting their macro-insurance properties. His previous work focused on the nature of the urban economy in early modern Toledo; the structure of the Spanish nobility and its impact on local economies; the role that apparently inefficient institutions can play when legal systems are too rigid to adapt to a changing economic environment; and the interaction between resource windfalls and institutions.
- Dr. Gabriel Natividad is a Professor of Economics at Universidad de Piura (Lima) and a member of the Lima School of Economics. He received his PhD at UCLA. His finance-related research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies. His work also spans the fields of industrial economics and strategy, and has been published in the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategy Science. Born in Lima in 1977, he studied Economics at Universidad del Pacífico, where he won the Premio Robert Maes in 1995, 1997, 1998, and the Premio Robert Maes Especial in 1999.
- Miguel Ángel Martínez Carrasco is an Assistant Professor at The Universidad de los Andes School of Management in Bogotá, Colombia. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and his BA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His research focuses on understanding the role managerial practices and incentives have as key drivers of productivity gains in private and public organizations. His recent work explores how firms’ termination (firing) policies generate negative spillovers across workers when they handle inputs of different quality, and provides policy guidance to reduce their negative impacts. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as Experimental Economics and the Review of Economic Studies.
Summer School 2018
The 2018 Lima Summer School in Economics will include the following topics: Regression Discontinuity Designs, Empirical Analysis of Wage Differences: Discrimination and Decomposition Methods, and Behavioral Economics Applied to Healthcare. The Faculty is composed by professors from Vancouver School of Economics as well as by associated members of Lima School of Economics.
Summer School 2017
The 2017 Lima Summer School in Economics will include the following topics: Identification Issues in Applied Econometrics, Taxation and Pension System Reform, and Banking and Corporate Finance in Emerging Economies. The Faculty is composed by professors from Vancouver School of Economics as well as by associated members of Lima School of Economics.
Summer School 2016
The 2016 Lima Summer School in Economics included three courses: Economics of Nonrenewable Resources: Overview and Recent Developments; Economics of Competition Policy; and Advanced Topics in Policy Evaluation and Research Design in Economics. The Faculty of the 2016 edition was formed by professors from Vancouver School of Economics as well as by associated members of Lima School of Economics: Dr. Brian Copeland (PhD Stanford University), Dr. Thomas Ross (PhD University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Jose Galdo (PhD. University of Syracuse).
Incumbent capacity responses to entry: Evidence of predation in the U.S. airline industry.
Erico Pennings - Erasmus University Rotterdam
Public development banks and credit market imperfections
Xavier Freixas - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Facebook causes protests
Leopoldo Fergusson - Universidad de los Andes
Land titles and violent conflict in rural Mexico
Tobias Pfutze - Florida International University
Price matching guarantees and collusion: Theory and evidence from Germany
Luis Cabral - New York University
Ever since Allais and Ellsberg
Shachar Kriv - UC Berkeley
The life-cycle growth of plants: The role of productivity, demand and wedges
Marcela Eslava - Universidad de los Andes
LimaSE Young Visiting Scholar Program
The economics department at Universidad de Piura aims to produce cutting-edge research in economics. As part of this goal, it has organized six international workshops for young economists since 2007. To complement this effort, it is now inviting applications for its First Young Visiting Scholar program, as we recognize the growing importance of gathering and connecting young scholars from the best academic institutions in the world.
The Young Visiting Scholar program offers the following benefits:
- Interaction and collaboration with faculty members and other local researchers
- Access to Peruvian data
- Private office (with facilities)
- Presentations in seminars
Call for applications 2019
This first call is for the period March-August 2019. The minimum length of the stay is three months. We may accept up to 2 visiting scholars.
Call for applicationsInternational Workshop for Young Economists
Este evento convoca a economistas peruanos que hayan completado recientemente su tesis doctoral o estén próximos a concluirla. El propósito es que presenten su investigación y la enriquezcan con los comentarios del resto de participantes. La periodicidad de este evento es bienal. Desde el primer workshop, 40 economistas de más de 25 universidades de Norteamérica y Europa han expuesto sus proyectos de tesis doctoral.
Workshop 2018
El VII International Workshop for Young Economists se realizará el 2 y 3 de agosto de 2018 en el marco del V Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía, el cual tendrá lugar en el campus Piura de la Universidad en Piura. El plazo para el envío de papers se encuentra abierto hasta el 30 de abril de 2018.
Los siguientes documentos presentan más información:
Call for papersExpositores del Workshop 2016
- Jorge Chávez
University of Warwick
"Local Export Spillovers in an Developing Country" (Descargar Paper) - Ricardo Piqué
Northwestern University
"Electoral Platforms and Local Development in Peru" (Descargar Paper) - Cristian Maravi
University of Rochester
“Labeling quits and layoffs under incomplete experience rating in the unemployment insurance system” (Descargar Paper) - Patricia Ritter
University of Chicago
"Soda Consumption in the Tropics: The Trade-Off between Obesity and Diarrhea in Developing Countries" (Descargar Paper)
- Cristina Tello-Trillo
Yale University
"The Impact of Trade on Managerial Incentives and Productivity" (Descargar Paper) - Sebastián Tello-Trillo
Vanderbilt University
"Effects of Losing Public Health Insurance on Healthcare Access, Utilization and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the TennCare Disenrollment" (Descargar Paper) - Giannina Vaccaro
University of Geneva
"How to Reduce the Unexplained Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design" (Descargar Paper)
Expositores del Workshop 2014
- Nicolas Bottan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Overcoming the Tyranny of History: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa" - Renzo Castellares
University of Virginia
"Competition and Quality Upgrading in Export Markets: The Case of Peruvian Apparel Exports" - Gabriela Cuadra
University of California at Santa Cruz
"The impact of Labor Market Frictions on Exporting Firm"
- Fernando Fernandez
University of Calgary
"Electrification and Educational: Outcomes in Rural Peru" - Kristian López-Vargas
University of Maryland Sandro Parodi
"Promoting Pro-School Behavior through Reinforcement Messages" - Lucciano Villacorta
Center for Monetary and Financial Studies
"Estimating country heterogeneity in aggregate CES production functions"
Expositores del Workshop 2012
- Italo Gutiérrez
University of Michigan
"Does Unemployment Insurance Discourage on-the-job Search? Evidence from Older American Workers" - Manuel Hernández
Texas A&M University
"Group lending with heterogeneous types" - Luis Llosa
University of California - Los Angeles
"Terms of Trade in Small Open Economies: The Role of Monopolistic Output Markets" - Stanislao Maldonado
University of California – Berkeley
"Resource Curse, Political Support and Democratic Consolidation: Evidence from Peru"
- Fabrizio Orrego
Carnegie Mellon University
"Dedollarization and Financial Robustness" - Jean Paul Rabanal
University of California - Santa Cruz
"The Strategic Default with Neighbors: A Laboratory Experiment" - Fiorella Risso
Université Paris Dauphine
"La Formation des Aspirations Monetaires au Perou : Une Analyse des Processus d Adaptation et de Comparaisons Sociales " - Hannes Schwandt
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Wealth Schocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations"
Expositores del Workshop 2010
- Marcos Agurto
University of British Columbia
"The Role of Social Capital on Improved Cooking Stoves Usage Decisions in the Peruvian Andes" - Irma Arteaga
University of Minnesota
"The Relationship between Maternal Education and the Production of Cognitive Skills in Children: The Case of Peru" - Diether Beuermann
University of Maryland - College Park
"The Effect of Telecommunications Technologies on Agricultural Profits and Child Labor: Evidence from Isolated Villages in Peru" - Rodrigo Escudero
IESE Business School
"Private Information in Concentrated Markets with Forward Contracting" - Verónica Frisancho
Pennsylvania State University
"Signaling Creditworthiness in Peruvian Microfinance Markets: The Role of Information Sharing" - Verónica Frisancho
Pennsylvania State University
"Signaling Creditworthiness in Peruvian Microfinance Markets: The Role of Information Sharing"
- Gianmarco León
University of California - Berkeley
"Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: The Long Term Effects of Political Violence in Peru" - Oswaldo Molina
Oxford University
"Impact of Property Rights on Poor Households’ Investment Decisions: A Treatment Evaluation of a Titling Programme in Peru" - Eduardo Nakasone
University of Maryland - College Park
"The Impact of Land Titling on Labor Allocation: Evidence from Rural Peru" - Fabrizio Orrego
Carnegie Mellon University
"Demography and the Predictability of Savings: The Role of Socialization" - Alan Sánchez
Oxford University
"The Impact of Armed Conflict on Early Health and Nutrition in Peru"
Expositores del Workshop 2008
- Fernando Aragón
London School of Economics
"Candidate Selection and Quality of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Latin America" - Miguel Angel Carpio
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Does Pension Saving Crowd Out Voluntary Saving? Evidence from Social Security Privatization in Peru" - Javier Coronado
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Can Competition Conditions and Market Structure Explain High Price Cost Margins in the Pharmaceutical Industry? The Case of Antihypertensives" - José Antonio Dorich
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Testing for Rule of Thumb Price Setting" - José Antonio Dorich
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"The Welfare Losses of Price Rigidities"
- Roberto Duncan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Institutions and Cyclical Properties of Macroeconomic Policies" - Edwin Goñi
European University Institute
"The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows" - Ruy Lama
UCLA
"Accounting for Output Drops in Latin America" - Arturo Ormeño
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Great Moderation Debate: Should We Worry about Using Approximated Policy Functions?"
Expositores del Workshop 2007
- Alejandro Arrieta
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
"Effect of Market Structure on Health Quality in the New Jersey Hopsital Industry" - Juan Carlos Bisso
University of Virginia
"Optimal Agency Contracts: The Effect of Vicarious Liability and Judicial Error" - Paul Castillo
London School of Economics
"An Estimated Stochastic General Equilibrium Model with Partial Dollarization: A Bayesian Approach" - Ana Cecilia Dammert
Syracuse University
"Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua" - José Antonio Dorich
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Resurrecting the Role of Real Money Balance Effects" - Roberto Duncan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Is the Relationship between the US Current Account and Output Symmetric?"
- José Galdo
Syracuse University
"Training Quality and Earnings: The Effects of Competition on the Provision of Public-Sponsored Training Programs" - Ruy Lama
UCLA
"Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy under Segmented Asset Markets and Sticky Prices" - Carlos Montoro
London School of Economics
"Inflation Premium and Oil Price Volatility" - Hugo Ñopo
Northwestern University
"Economic Experiments to Measure Trust and Reciprocity in 6 Latin American Cities" - Miguel Robles
UCLA
"Aggregate Effects of Imperfect Tax Enforcement" - César Serra
UCLA
"Macro-Finance Implications of a General Equilibrium Model with Agency Costs"
Año 2019
Natividad, Gabriel
"Stunted firms: The long-term impacts of colonial taxation". Journal of Financial Economics, online May 2019.Agurto Adrianzén, Marcos; Fiestas, Hugo; Nuñez, Wenceslao; Quevedo, Valeria and Vegas, Susana
"Study-group diversity and early college academic outcomes: Experimental evidence from a higher education inclusion program in Peru". Economics of Education Review 72 (2019): 131-146.
Año 2018
Martinez, Miguel and Amodio, Francesco
"Input Allocation, Workforce Management and Productivity Spillovers: Evidence From Personnel Data". The Review of Economic Studies (2018). DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdy010.Salas, Vania and Patel-Campillo, Anouk
"Un/associated: Accounting for gender difference and farmer heterogeneity among Peruvian Sierra potato small farmers". Journal of Rural Studies 64 (2018): 91-102.
Año 2017
Garmaise, Mark and Natividad, Gabriel
"Consumer Default, Credit Reporting and Borrowing Constraints". Journal of Finance 72.5 (2017): 2331-2368.Neelsen, Sven and O'Donnell, Owen
"Progresive universalism? The impact of targeted coverage on health care access and expenditures in Peru". Journal of Health Economics 26.12 (2017): 1479-1868.Bernal, Noelia; Carpio, Miguel and Klein, Tobias
"The effects of access to health insurance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Peru". Journal of Public Economics 154 (2017): 122-136
Año 2016
Natividad, Gabriel
"Quotas, Productivity, and Prices: The Case of Anchovy Fishing " Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 25 (2016): 220-257Cabral, Luis and Natividad, Gabriel
"Cross-selling in the US home video industry". The RAND Journal of Economics, 47 (2016): 29-47Natividad, Gabriel and Rawley, Evan
"Interdependence and Performance: A Natural Experiment in Firm Scope" Strategy Science 1 (2016): 12-31Fracassi, Cesare, Garmaise, Mark, Kogan, Shimon and Natividad, Gabriel
"Business Microloans for U.S. Subprime Borrowers". Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 51 (2016): 55-83Cabral, Luis and Natividad, Gabriel
"Box-Office Demand: The Importance of Being #1". The Journal of Industrial Economics, 64.2 (2016): 277-294Garmaise, Mark and Natividad, Gabriel
"Spillovers in Local Banking Markets". Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 5 (2) (2016): 139-165DeRose, Laurie, Agurto, Marcos et. al
"Children’s Living Arrangements and On-time Progression Through School in Latin America and the Caribbean". Journal of Family and Economic Issues. DOI: 10.1007/s10834-016-9502-7Martínez-Carrasco, Miguel A.
"Behavioral Spillovers in Organizations: A Selective Review", in Sebastian J. Goerg, John R. Hamman (ed.) Experiments in Organizational Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 19). Emerald Group Publishing Limited, (2016) pp. 251-280
Año 2015
Natividad, Gabriel and Sorenson, Olav
"Competitive threats, constraints, and contagion in the multiunit firm." Organization Science 26 (2015): 1721-1733
Año 2014
Agurto Adrianzén, Marcos
"Social capital and improved stoves usage decisions in the Northern Peruvian Andes." World Development 54 (2014): 1-17.Bernal, Noelia and Vermeulen, Frederic
"The impact of an increase in the legal retirement age on the effective retirement age." De Economist 162.2 (2014): 115-145.Natividad, Gabriel
"Integration and productivity: Satellite-tracked evidence." Management Science 60.7 (2014): 1698-1718.
Año 2013
Agurto Adrianzén, Marcos
"Improved cooking stoves and firewood consumption: Quasi-experimental evidence from the Northern Peruvian Andes." Ecological Economics 89 (2013): 135-143.Calvo, Cesar and Dercon, Stefan
"Vulnerability to individual and aggregate poverty." Social Choice and Welfare 41.4 (2013): 721-740.Garmaise, Mark J. and Natividad, Gabriel
"Cheap credit, lending operations, and international politics: The case of global microfinance." The Journal of Finance 68.4 (2013): 1551-1576.Natividad, Gabriel
"Financial capacity and discontinuous investment: Evidence from emerging market multibusiness firms." The Review of Financial Studies 26 (2013): 2375-2410.Natividad, Gabriel
"Financial slack, strategy, and competition in movie distribution." Organization Science 24 (2013): 846-864.Natividad, Gabriel
"Multidivisional strategy and investment returns." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 22 (2013): 594-616
Targeting when Poverty is Multidimensional
Marcos Agurto - César Calvo - Miguel Ángel Carpio
Vulnerability to Poverty: Theory
César CalvoTwo competing strands exist within the theoretical literature on vulnerability to poverty, each with its own policy implications. Vulnerability may be seen as low expected utility and thus stress the danger of self-perpetuating poverty, as the poor shy away from risky, yet necessary decisions to escape their hardship. Alternatively, vulnerability is often construed as expected poverty and provides policy-makers with a forward-looking viewpoint that both sheds light and raises new questions on how best to formulate the targeting of social spending. This paper provides an overview of the theoretical work underpinning each of these competing views.
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Keep the Chimneys Working: Improved Cooking Stoves and Housewives\'Health in the Peruvian Andes
Marcos Agurto AdrianzénThis paper examines the effects of long term improved cooking stoves (ICS) usage on selfreported eye irritation symptoms and respiratory health in the Northern Peruvian Andes. To identify the effect of ICS, we exploit field data related to the quasi-random distribution of ICS with faulty iron frames. Our results indicate that ICS long term usage, with an operative chimney, reduces respiratory illnesses and eye discomfort symptoms among housewives. It is also shown that in the case of respiratory health, other household members may benefit from reduced household air pollution (HAP) exposure.
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Migration as a channel of persistence of the effects of Peru’s mining mita: what surnames may reveal
Miguel Ángel Carpio - María Eugenia GuerreroThis paper proposes three indicators constructed from the surnames of the current population to analyze the effect of mita, a forced mining labor system in Peru and Bolivia during 1573 and 1812, on historical migration. The underlying assumption is that surnames within a community might be the same over time unless migration or mortality displacement takes place. The mita case is particularly appealing for applying our indicators because the use of surnames was introduced in the study region only since the Spanish conquest in 1532. We estimate the effect of mita by using a regression discontinuity design similar to the one conducted by Dell (2010), which exploits the exogenous variation in its geographic assignment.
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Responsable: Gabriel Natividad
Frontera Económica es un grupo de discusión en temas de investigación científica de diversas ramas de la economía. Participan estudiantes de economía de distintas universidades peruanas, con el respaldo de la Lima School of Economics.
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Responsable: Gabriel Natividad
El despegue económico del Perú de los últimos años suele atribuirse a las buenas prácticas macroeconómicas y al contexto global favorable para el comercio internacional. Pero ¿qué rol cumple la empresa privada en el Perú? ¿Cuál es la realidad de la empresa peruana desde un punto de vista económico? ¿Cuáles son sus retos y cómo abordarlos? El inmenso campo académico de la economía de la empresa (business economics) ha sido poco explorado por los economistas locales, y constituye un interés central para la Lima School of Economics. Con el fin de fomentar investigación académica de vanguardia y diseminar resultados de este análisis a la comunidad en general y a los alumnos UDEP en particular, hemos constituido el Private Enterprise Program.
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