LACEA Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize 2012 Awarded to Sebastian Edwards

LACEA is pleased to announce that this years Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize has been awarded to Sebastian Edwards in recognition to a lifetime devoted to academic research and to his valuable contributions to policy making in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sebastian Edwards has been invited to deliver the Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Lecture during LACEAs Annual Meeting on November 1-3, 2012, in Lima, Peru. Sebastian Edwards will also be named an honorary LACEA member as of January 1 st 2013.

Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Lecture 2012 Economists as Storytellers

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Sebastian Edwards.
November 2, 2012, JJW Auditorium, Universidad del Pacfico, Lima, LACEALAMES Conference 2012

Sebastian Edwards, Winner of the Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize 2012

Sebastian Edwards is Henry Ford II, Professor of International Business Economics at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), member of the advisory board of Transnational Research Corporation and co-chairman of the Inter-American Seminar on Economics (IASE). He was member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and served as member of the California Council of Economic Advisors to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. From 1993 until April 1996, he held the post of Chief Economist for the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank. He has been President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). Edwards is the author of more than 200 scientific articles on international economics, macroeconomics and economic development. His articles have appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Monetary Economics, The Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, The Journal of Development Economics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives and other professional journals. His work and views are frequently quoted in the media, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.

Sebastian Edwards opinion pieces have been published in leading newspaper from around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Newsweek, Time, El Pas (Spain), La Nacin (Argentina), La Vanguardia (Spain), The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Clarn (Buenos Aires), and El Mercurio (Chile). He writes a monthly column in La Tercera (Chile), and is a columnist for Project Syndicate. Edwards is Associate Editor of Contemporary Policy Issues, the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, and Anlisis Econmico. For almost ten years he was the coeditor of the Journal of Development Economics. Some of his books are: "Preventing Currency Crises" (co-edited with Jeffrey Frankel, U. of Chicago Press, 2002); "The Economics and Political Transition to an Open Market Economy: Colombia," (OECD, 2001); "Capital Flows and the Emerging Economies," (U. of Chicago Press, 2000); "Anatomy of an Emerging-Market Crash: Mexico 1994" (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997) and "Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility, (Brookings, 1997). Other titles include "Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope" (Oxford University Press, 1995); "Monetarism and Liberalization, the Chilean Experiment" (coauthor); "Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries"; "Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation and Adjustment: Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries"; and the "Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America" (coeditor with Rudiger Dornbusch). Sebastian Edwards has consulted for a number of multilateral institutions, including the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the IMF, and the OECD. He has also been a consultant to the United States Agency for International Development, and to a number of national and international corporations. He has worked in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Venezuela. He has consulted for a number of international financial institutions and multinational firms. Professor Edwards has been an expert witness in a number of legal cases involving securities, credit events, international financial transactions, international taxation and foreign direct investment. Sebastian Edwards was born in Santiago, Chile. He was educated at the Catholic University of Chile, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Previous recipients of the Carlos Daz-Alejandro Prize

2010 2008 2006 2002 2000 1998 HUGO HOPENHAYN (UCLA) JERE BEHRMAN (University of Pennsylvania) GUILLERMO CALVO (Columbia University) RUDIGER DORNBUSCH (MIT) (Awarded posthumously) ARNOLD HARBERGER (UCLA and University of Chicago) EDMAR BACHA (PUC-Rio)

About LACEA

The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) was founded in July of 1992 to encourage greater professional interaction and foster increased dialogue among researchers and practitioners whose work focuses on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Since its inception LACEA has grown to an organization with an annual average of 1,000 active members. Starting in 1996, the association has held annual meetings in Mexico City, Bogot, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Madrid, Puebla, San Jos Costa Rica and Paris. This years meeting will be held in Lima, Peru.

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