WORKSHOP ON MACROECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE 2016 RIDGE December Forum Buenos Aires, Argentina / December 19 - 20, 2016 Scientific Committee Facundo Albornoz (University of Nottingham) Martín Guzman (Columbia University) Juan Carlos Hallak (Universidad de San Andrés) Daniel Heymann (IIEP BAIRES, UBA- CONICET) Andrés López (IIEP BAIRES, UBA- CONICET) Martin Rapetti (CEDES and Universidad de Buenos Aires) Ernesto Stein (Inter-American Development Bank) Executive Secretary: María Fernanda Domínguez – maria.dominguez@fce.uba.ar Call for papers for the Workshop on Macroeconomics, Development and Structural Change The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE), the IIEP-BAIRES UBA-CONICET, are pleased to announce a call for papers for the Workshop on Macroeconomics, Development and Structural Change to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 19-20, 2016. The deadline for abstracts submission is October 15, 2016. The notification of organizers decision will be made on November 1, 2016. Accepted papers should be submitted before December 1, 2016. The meeting will take place within the framework of the RIDGE activities along with the following workshops: • Financial Stability, December 6-7, 2016 (Montevideo, Uruguay) • Workshop on Environmental Economics, December 7, 2016 (Montevideo, Uruguay) • International Macro, December 8-9, 2016 (Montevideo, Uruguay) • Workshop on Productivity and Growth, December 12-13, 2016 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) • Growth and Development in Macroeconomics, December 15-16, 2016 (Montevideo, Uruguay) • Trade and Firm Dynamics, December 15-16, 2016 (Montevideo, Uruguay) The RIDGE December Forum aims to favor the spread of high quality research in economics by bringing together top researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers and policymakers. Participants to this workshop are welcome to attend the other workshops. Paper submission Abstracts or full papers, written in English or Spanish, must be submitted for consideration for the workshop. The cover page should include: the title of the paper, institutional affiliation, including address, phone and email of each author and the appropriate JEL classification. Abstracts or papers, in PDF format, must be submitted to iiep-baires@fce.uba.ar. Important Dates Deadline for submission: October 15, 2016 Notification of organizers decision: November1, 2016. Deadline for accepted papers submission: December 1, 2016 Further Information For more information about RIDGE see www.ridge.uy andhttp://iiep-baires.econ.uba.ar/