En el Auditorio Mtro. Ricardo Torres Gaitán
Monday 17th October
09:00 – 09:30hrs Registration and opening remarks
Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas
General Secretary of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Ana Elena González Treviño
Director of the Centre for Mexican Studies, UNAM-UK
Armando Sánchez Vargas
Director of the Institute for Economic Research (IIEc, UNAM)
Aída García Lázaro
Research Associate (IPR, UoB, UK)
09:30 – 11:20 hrs Interinstitutional Presentations
IIEc’s agenda, objectives, and areas of collaboration
Armando Sánchez Vargas (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
IPR’s agenda, objectives, and potential collaboration
Matthew Dickson (IPR, UoB, UK)
IPR’s programmes
Claudia Torres-Cervantes (IPR, UoB, UK)
Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation
Susan Lattanzio (Dept of Mechanical Engineering, UoB, UK)
Q&A
11:20 – 11:30 hrs Coffee break
11:30 – 13:10 hrs Plenary talks
Mexican economy during the pandemic and post-pandemic
Armando Sánchez Vargas (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
The relationship between comorbidities and Covid-19 deaths in the pandemic in Mexico
Ramses H. Mena Chávez
Director of Institute of Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS, UNAM) and University of Bath Global Chair in 2018
Q&A
13:10 – 14:40 hrs Lunch
14:40 – 16:10 hrs The labour market and Covid-19 pandemic
Segmented markets in a machine learning approach: The UK labour market
Christopher Martin (Dept of Economics, UoB, UK)
Discussant: Jorge Méndez Astudillo (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Q&A
Risks of transitioning into health insurance deprivation for the working-age population in Mexico amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Yedith Betzabé Guillén Fernández (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Discussant: Magdalyn Uche Ahuoiza Okolo (Dept of Economics, UoB, UK)
Q&A
Tuesday 18th October
09:00 – 09:20 hrs Registration and opening remarks
José Manuel Márquez Estrada (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Aída García Lázaro (IPR, UoB, UK)
09:20 – 10:50 hrs Session one: The labour market and Covid-19 pandemic – Part I
Confined Consumers and Inflation in times of Covid-19: The Mexican Case
Edwin Salim Tapia Alvarado (Central Bank of Mexico)
Discussant: José Manuel Márquez Estrada (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Q&A
Assessing the effect of the USA vaccination program on the positivity rate
Armando Sánchez Vargas (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Discussant: Christopher Martin (Department of Economics, UoB, UK)
Q&A
10:50 – 11:00 hrs Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Session two: The labour market and Covid-19 pandemic- Part II
Education, informality in the Mexican labour market
Magdalyn Uche Ahuoiza Okolo (Department of Economics, UoB, UK)
Discussant: Moritz Alberto Cruz Blanco (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Q&A
Tropical Forest Frontiers in Flux: Long-Term Conservation and Development Policies in
Mexico’s Selva Lacandona
Santiago Izquierdo Tort (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Discussant: David Bonilla (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Q&A
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:40 Session three: Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Graduate underemployment in the U Matt Dickson (IPR, UoB, UK)
Discussant: Armando Sánchez Vargas (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Q&A
Extended School Days for the Post-Covid-19 era
Francisco Cabrera Hernández (CIDE, Mexico)
Discussant: Yedith Betzabé Guillen Fernández (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Q&A
Impact of Covid-19 in education
Sergio Cárdenas Denham (CIDE, Mexico and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Scholar, US)
Discussant: Matthew Dickson (IPR, UoB, UK)
Q&A
15:40 – 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 – 16:30 Session four: Digitalisation I
Artificial Intelligence industry applications: price optimization and recommendations engines
Mario Mercado Mendoza (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Q&A
16:30 – 16:40 Closing remarks
Wednesday 19th October
09:00 – 09:20 Registration and opening remarks (refreshments)
Armando Sánchez Vargas (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Aída García-Lázaro (IPR, UoB, UK)
09:20 – 11:20 Session five: Digitalisation and the labour market
The impact of lockdown in air quality in major Mexican cities
Jorge Méndez Astudillo (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Discussant: Aída García-Lázaro (IPR, UoB, UK)
Q&A
Intangible capital, technological change and labour share
Aída García-Lázaro (IPR, UoB, UK)
Discussant: Mario Mercado Mendoza (IIEc, UNAM, México)
Q&A
Skill obsolescence and digitalisation in the post-COVID-19 age
Aida Garcia-Lazaro (IPR, UoB, UK)
Discussant: Mario Mercado Mendoza (IIEc, UNAM, México)
Q&A
11:20 – 11:30 Closing remarks
Armando Sánchez Vargas (IIEc, UNAM, Mexico)
Aída García Lázaro (IPR, UoB, UK)