Dear Authors and Esteemed Readers,

 

On behalf of the Department of Quantitative Economics of the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, I write this Foreword to Proceedings of the VI International Meeting of Economics held on September 1–3,  virtually.

This 6^th edition of the International Meeting of Economics has brought together researchers and professionals from all over the world, especially from Latin America, to present and discuss their research. Their contributions have been interesting and of outstanding quality. The themes addressed by the papers relate to Regional Economics, Welfare Economics, Industrial Economics, Ecological Economics, Economic Policy, Econometric Methods, Financial Economics and Socioeconomic effects derived from the COVID-19 pandemic.

These Proceedings include papers corresponding to ordinary and discussion sessions. The ordinary sessions consist in short abstracts (200-400 words) and discussion sessions consist in long abstracts (1200-2000 words). The scientific committee was composed of researchers from both Ecuadorian and international universities. The papers were evaluated based on five criteria: originality, clarity of purpose, quality of the literature review, data quality and the applied methodology and the expected results. In summary, the conference program was rich with high-impact presentations.

These Proceedings constitute an excellent reference publication for economic researchers. I am confident that these proceedings will stimulate further research and further interaction between participants.

 

We thank all authors for their outstanding contributions.

 

Carolina Guevara Rosero, Ph.D

Coordinator of the VI International Meeting of Economics