Other Activities

CLAE staff members participated in a wide range of professional activities last year. CLAE staff members organized meetings at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas with Dallas Fed President Robert D. McTeer, Jr., and Banco de México Governor Guillermo Ortiz. At these meetings Manuel Ramos Francia, Banco de México’s director general for economic research, and David Margolin, director general for central bank operations, made presentations on the Mexican economy and monetary policy while Dallas Fed Research Department Vice Presidents John Duca and Evan Koenig made presentations on the U.S. economy and monetary policy. CLAE staff members also organized presentations by Mexico Finance Minister Francisco Gil Diaz and by Banco Central do Brasil President Henrique de Campos Meirelles at Dallas Fed-sponsored conferences.

In other CLAE professional activities, William C. Gruben presented “Financial Liberalization, Market Discipline and Bank Risk” at a meeting at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica in Mexico City. The same paper, which was co-authored by Jahyeong Koo and Robert Moore, was presented by Moore at the meeting of the Latin American Finance Network in Buenos Aires.

Carlos E. J. M. Zarazaga presented “Latin America: A Look at the Past to Conjecture About the Future” to the U.S. Agency for International Development Economic Policy Seminar in Caracas. Zarazaga also served on the dissertation committee of Victor Pacharoni at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Roberto Coronado and Pia M. Orrenius presented “The Impact of Illegal Immigration and Enforcement on Border Crime Rates” at the annual meeting of the Association of Borderlands Studies in Las Vegas. Pia M. Orrenius presented “The Role of U.S. Border Enforcement in the Crossing Behavior of Mexican Migrants” at the annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, which took place in Dallas. “Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence,” by Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny, was presented at meetings of the Population Association of America in Minneapolis, European Society for Population Economics in New York, National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute in Boston, Society of Labor Economists in Toronto, and Center for Mexican–American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Erwan Quintin presented “Financial Crises and Total Factor Productivity” at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, as well as at the University of Texas at Austin and at Rice University in Houston. He presented “The Implications of Capital-Skill Complementarities in Economies with Large Informal Sectors” at the annual Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society in Panama City.

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