The 2008 LACEA and LAMES meetings will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from November 20th to 22nd, 2008. The Meetings will be hosted by Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) and Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA).
The Annual Meetings of these two academic associations will be run in parallel, under a single local organization. By registering to LACEA-LAMES 2008, participants will be welcomed to attend to all sessions of both meetings.
Aloisio Araujo (FGV and IMPA) is the conference chairman. The LACEA Program Committee is co-chaired by Luis Braido (FGV). The LAMES Program Committee is co-chaired by Humberto Moreira (FGV) for Theoretical and Applied Economics and by Sergio Firpo (PUC-Rio) for Econometrics and Empirical Economics.
The extended deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2008. Authors can submit one paper to each meeting, but the same paper cannot be submitted to both meetings.
Authors submitting papers must be member of the respective association at the time of submission. Membership information can be found at http://www.lacea.org/ and http://www.econometricsociety.org.
Extended Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2008.