The Economics Institute is a research and traning institution which offers academic programmes to post-graduate students. The Institute focuses its research on issues such as:
- environmental and natural resource economics
- financial economics
- macroeconomics and development
- economics of social policies
The website contains information about the faculty at the Institute, a list of workshops and seminars, additional information about the courses it offers, and a large collection of downloadable research papers (in both english and spanish).