Academic centre for theoretical and applied research relating to national and regional economic reality. Activities include seminars, workshops and conventions. Research programmes include:
- competitiveness in industry, agroindustry, and [outside?] business
- distribution of income and poverty
- agricultural economics and politics
- economics of education
- finance and banking
- the international economy and the regions
- logic and methodology of science
- international macroeconomics, macroeconometrics and political economics
- management of water resources
- quantitative methods
- industrial organisation, industrial economics and regulation
- the public sector, fiscal policy and federal finances
Website (in Spanish) includes further details about the Institute, its activities, members, programmes and publications. Publications include Observatorio de la Economía, Actualidad Económica, and a series of research papers; all have full texts available to download, in Spanish.