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We are pleased to announce that Universidad de Los Andes’ prof. Eleonora Lozano Rodriguez has confirmed participation in the joint Lawle-EPRG 2017 event.

Prof. Eleonora Lozano is Director of the Masters Program in Taxation as well as the Specialization Program in Taxation at UniAndes. A permanent member of the organizing committee of LAWLE, prof. Lozano is an expert in arbitration, member of the Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliación Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá and of the Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliación (MARCO) del Autorregulador del Mercado de Valores.

We are pleased to inform that Yokohama National University‘s Professor Keiichi Yamazaki, has confirmed participation in the joint Lawle-EPRG 2017 event.

Prof. Keiichi Yamazaki is Head, Department of International Development, GSISS, YNU, Head, Department of International Economics, College of Economics, YNU, Chief, Macroeconomic Growth Division, Center for Economic Growth Strategy, YNU, Researcher, Unit for Development Policy for Latin America, Institute of Advanced Sciences, YNU and Vice Director, Joint Japan-World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program at YNU on Public Policy and Taxation. 

Prof. Yamazaki is a current Board Member of the  Japan Society of Social Science on Latin America and of the Japan Association for the Study of Local Government. He is currently on the Organizing Committee of the 2017 Annual Meeting of Japan Association for the Study of Local Government (to be held in November at Senshu University, Tokyo) and of The 74th Annual Meeting of Japan Institute of Public Finance (to be held in September 2017 at Rikkyo University, Tokyo)

CHAMADA PARA SUBMISSÃO DE TRABALHOS E PROPOSTAS DE LANÇAMENTO DE LIVROS

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O Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG) convida seus membros e demais interessados a submeter suas pesquisas para apresentação nos eventos conjuntos LAWLE 2017 e 2017 EPRG, que serão realizados de 16 a 18 de novembro de 2017 em Brasília.

Temos especial interesse em artigos multidisciplinares nas áreas de Economia, Ciência Política, Direito, Sociologia e Psicologia.

Este ano teremos uma sessão acadêmica especial de lançamento de livros seguida de autógrafos, no modelo usado no Third Annual Meeting do EPRG.

Submissões de artigos e de propostas de lançamento de livros devem ser feitas até o dia 15 de setembro de 2017, na página de submissão em:

https://www.doity.com.br/2017-latin-american-workshop-in-law-and-economics-lawle-2017

Devido aos limites naturais de espaço físico, sugerimos aos interessados em participar do evento que se inscrevam o quanto antes na página indicada acima.

Atenciosamente,

Mauricio Bugarin

Presidente da Comissão Organizadora do LAWLE 2017 e 2017 EPRG
www.bugarinmauricio.com,  www.EconPolRG.com,  http://www.LAWLE.ORG/LAWLE-2017

We are pleased to announce that prof. Alberto Simpser Mondlak, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM-Political Science Department
has confirmed he will participate in LAWLE 2017.

From Prof. Alberto Simpser’s webpage:

Professor Simpser’s research examines major problems in the political economy of development, including corruption, electoral manipulation, and failures of governance and democratic accountability. His work utilizes statistical, experimental, formal, and qualitative methods. Prof. Simpser joined the faculty of ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) as Associate Professor in the fall of 2014. Previously, he worked as Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He has been a residential Fellow at the Princeton Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a Level II National Researcher in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Prof. Simpser holds a PhD degree in political science and an MA degree in economics from Stanford University, and a B.Sc. degree in engineering sciences from Harvard College.

We are pleased to announce that prof. Rodrigo Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, has just confirmed he will participate in LAWLE 2017.

From Columbia University School of Public Affairs:

Rodrigo R. Soares is Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs. Professor Soares’ research centers on development economics, ranging from labor, human capital, and demographic economics, to crime. His work has appeared in various scientific journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics, among various others. Before joining Columbia, Soares taught at the Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV, PUC-Rio, the University of Maryland, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

In 2006, he was awarded the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper published in the field of Health Economics. Soares is research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Germany), research affiliate at J-PAL Latin America, and associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital, of the Journal of Demographic Economics, and of the IZA Journal of Labor & Development. He has acted as consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and state governments in Brazil on issues related to crime and violence, health, and development.  He received his Ph.D. in Economics under the guidance of Gary S. Becker at the University of Chicago in 2002.