Research Seminars

The GESG organizes Research Seminars to which researchers are invited to submit full papers written in English. These seminars are organized by the Secretary. Papers are to be submitted by e-mail to the Secretary. The language of Research Seminars is English. The duration of each seminar is of 45 minutes followed by questions of 15 minutes. The papers to be presented are sent to GESG members about one week before the seminar date. Papers presented in Research Seminars may be submitted for the Discussion Paper Series.

Seminars

Seminar 44: Helmuth Chávez
"Illiquidity Premium? Don't ask the Factor Models", May 9, 2019.

Seminar 43: Olav A. Dirkmaat
"Capital Theory, Capital Markets and Q", May 2, 2019.
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Seminar 42: Karina Ramírez
"Relación entre Productividad y Tipo de Cambio Real: Efecto Balassa-Samuelson para 17 Países de América Latina", April 4, 2019.
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Seminar 41: Guillermo Díaz
"Retornos de la educación en Guatemala: Rentabilidad disminuye", March 21, 2019.
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Seminar 39: Juan Carlos Castañeda, Carlos Castillo, Douglas, Galindo, Mariano Gutiérrez y Edson Ortiz
" Evaluación del Esquema de Metas Explícitas de Inflación (EMEI) en Guatemala", November 29, 2018.
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Seminar 38: Walter Figueroa
"Impacto de un aumento en la tasa de Impuesto al Valor Agregado sobre el bienestar de los hogares y sobre el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS): el caso guatemalteco", November 22, 2018.
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Seminar 37: Mauricio Vargas
"Impacto de la variabilidad de los precios del petróleo en el crecimiento económico de Centroamerica: Un enfoque de modelos vectoriales de corrección de error ", November 15, 2018.
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Seminar 36: Olav Dirkmaat
"Hayek versus Harvard: The Case Against ‘Industrial Policy ", September 13, 2018.
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Seminar 32: Olav A. Dirkmaat
"Fat-tails and Anti-fragility", March 22, 2018.
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Seminar 26: Daniela Carrizo, Ricardo Eskildsen y Humberto González
“Forecasting following appearance of extreme values when using AR-GARCH and QAR-Beta-t-EGARCH”, Abril 21, 2017.
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Seminar 25: Michelle Steiger
“The Influence of Country Risk Premiums on Stock Market Returns: A global analysis on the relationship between country risk and stock market indexes”, November 25, 2016.
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Seminar 24: Diego Aycinena
“Informed entry in auctions”, September 2, 2016.
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Seminar 22: Zachary Grossman
“Evaluating the trade-off between efficiency and property rights in assembly mechanisms”, June 29, 2016.
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Seminar 18: Lucas Rentschler
“Two-bidder all-pay auctions with interdependent valuations, including the highly competitive case”, March 4, 2016.
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Seminar 14: Lucas Rentschler
“Two-bidder all-pay auctions with private signals: Experimental evidence”, August 28, 2015.
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Seminar 13: John Maluccio
“Migration, the financial crisis, and child growth in rural Guatemala”, July 15, 2015.
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Seminar 12: Betzy Sandoval
“Demand for intra-household control, risk and discounting for recipients of conditional cash transfers”, July 10, 2015.
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Seminar 11: Diego Aycinena
“Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador”, July 3, 2015.
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Seminar 10: Héctor Hernández
“Dynamic conditional score models for electricity prices in Central America”, June 5, 2015.
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Seminar 9: Luis Antonio Monteros
“Event-Study Analysis of Information Technology Stocks by Dynamic Conditional Score Models”, May 8, 2015.
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Seminar 8: Vicente Mendoza
“QARMA-Beta-t-EGARCH versus ARMA-GARCH”, April 17, 2015.
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Seminar 6: Astrid Ayala
“Default risk of sovereign debt in Central America”, November 21, 2014.
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Seminar 4: Luis Monteros
“Predicting the volatility of information technology stocks: Does Beta-t-EGARCH (1,1) beat a GARCH (1,1)?”, October 10, 2014.
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Seminar 3: Marco Villatoro
“Volatility of global equity indices: comparison of GARCH and Beta-t-EGARCH models”, August 22, 2014.
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Seminar 2: Andreas Heier
“Time Variance of Risk -Factors Effects”, July 25, 2014.
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