TO:	Participants, Inter-American Seminar on Economics

FROM:	Rob Shannon; Assistant Director, Conferences

DATE:	November 17, 2004

RE:	Papers for the Meeting

The program and some of the papers scheduled for presentation at the December 3 and 4, 2004 Inter-American Seminar on Economics can be found at http://www.nber.org/~confer/2004/iasef04/program.html. The remaining papers will be posted here as they are made available to me. The seminar is sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and El Colegio de Mexico and will take place at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico. The preliminary participant list is attached.

If you would like copies of the papers mailed to you, please let me know.

Hotel reservations have been made, as requested, at the Sheraton Centro Historico Hotel, Avenida Juárez 70, Colonia Centro, Mexico City, Mexico, Tel: (52)(55) 51305300, Fax: (52)(55) 51305255. If you have not yet sent in your reply form, or if your plans should change, please contact me immediately so that the appropriate arrangements can be made.

If you have any questions please contact me at 617-868-3900, FAX 617-864-1825 or E-
MAIL rshannon@nber.org.