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Date of creation:  August 2004, Resolución Rectoral No UPB-RR-012/2004

The Economic and Business Research Center focuses its research on applied economics topics, with emphasis on national and regional issues, prioritizing data-based technical analysis.

CIEE has a wide spectrum of research lines, among them: economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, international trade agreements and economic integration, labor market, inequality and poverty, regional development and analysis of productive sectors, competitiveness, market analysis, organizational development and human development.

Consistent with its technical orientation, CIEE privileges the use of mathematical and statistical quantitative methods and techniques as analytical instruments of applied research, such as econometric, accounting and computable general equilibrium models.

Currently, the CIEE is part of the Citizen Observatory “Cochabamba nos une”, an entity in charge of monitoring and analyzing the quality of life in the metropolitan area of ​​Cochabamba. Likewise, the main researchers of the CIEE are part of the Economic Analysis Unit of Federation of Private Business Entities of Cochabamba.