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- ↑ Announcing new PEPM Core Faculty for Spring 2017.
- ↑ Committee Members of the Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Issues.
- ↑ Liliana Rojas-Suarez: Economist of the year
- ↑ Liliana Rojas-Suarez. IDEAS/RePEc
- ↑ International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association, "2010 Executive Committee",
