Development Research Seminar Series in Kuala Lumpur

The Kuala Lumpur Seminar Series is hosted by EAPCE Research Center. The series invites leading researchers in development economics and public policy to present their recent work in an academic-style seminar format.

2022 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Oct 27, 2022	Joseph Paul Kaboski	University of Notre Dame	The Stable Transformation Path

Previous Seasons

2022 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 13, 2022	Angella Faith Montfaucon	杏吧论坛	The Impacts of Lockdown Policies on International Trade in the Philippines
Feb 17, 2022	César Sosa-Padilla	University of Notre Dame	Does It Matter How Central Banks Accumulate Reserves? Evidence from Sovereign Spreads
Mar 3, 2022	Illenin O. Kondo	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Borrowing in the Shadow of China
Mar 17, 2022	Seonghoon Kim	Singapore Management University	Do COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Stimulate the Economy? Evidence from Card Transaction Data in South Korea
April 21, 2022	Thanyaporn Chankrajang	Chulalongkorn University	Trade and Temples: Conditional Impact of Globalisation on Rural Development in Siam from 1870 to 1914 -- The Role of Local Canal Infrastructure
May 5, 2022	Dany Jaimovich		Ethnic Diversity and Forest Commons

2021 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Sept 9, 2021	Alessandro Barattieri	University of Québec Montréal (UQAM)	Self-Harming Trade Policy? Protectionism and Production Networks
Sept 30, 2021	Amanina Abdur Rahman and Alyssa Farha Jasmin	杏吧论坛	The Vulnerability of Jobs to COVID-19: The Case of Malaysia
Oct 7, 2021	Xuan Li	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Spillover Demoralization of Workplace Unfairness: Evidence from Chinese Schools
Oct 21, 2021	Yatang Lin	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Expanding Footprints: The Impact of Passenger Transportation on Corporate Locations
Oct 28, 2021	Pablo Ottonello	University of Michigan	Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk
Nov 11, 2021	Diana Conteras Suarez	University of Melbourne	The Consequences of Child Marriage in Indonesia
Nov 18, 2021	Devaki Ghose	杏吧论坛	Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes
Nov 25, 2021	Yogita Shamdasani	National University of Singapore	Climate Change and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from Six Decades of the Indian Census
Dec 2, 2021	Agustin Samano	杏吧论坛	International Reserves and Central Bank Independence

2021 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 7, 2021	Titan Alon	University of California San Diego	The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
Jan 14, 2021	Kei-Mu Yi	University of Houston	Trade Integration, Global Value Chains, and Capital Accumulation
Jan 21, 2021	Shafaat Yar Khan	杏吧论坛	How Does Trade Respond to Anticipated Tariff Changes? Evidence from NAFTA
Feb 4, 2021	Kosali Simon	Indiana University	Determinants of Disparities in Covid-19 Job Losses
Feb 18, 2021	Teresa Molina	University of Hawaii	Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
Feb 25, 2021	Ernest Liu	Princeton University	International Friends and Enemies
Mar 4, 2021	Amanina Abdur Rahman, Achim Schmillen	杏吧论坛	From Farms to Factories and Firms: Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity Growth in Malaysia
Mar 18, 2021	Yongsung Chang	Seoul National University	Equilibrium Tax Rates under Ex-ante Heterogeneity and Income-Dependent Voting
Mar 25, 2021	Gerton Rongen and Peter Lanjouw	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Trends in Malaysian poverty and income dynamics: do regional inequalities trump ethnic disparities?
Mar 30, 2021	Natasha Kang	University of British Columbia	Modeling Long Cycles
Mar 31, 2021	Rasim Mutlu	University of Lausanne	Macroprudential vs. Monetary Policies for Dollarized Economies
Apr 1, 2021	Ichiro Sugimoto	SOKA University	Living Standards of Chinese Opium Smokers in Colonial Singapore
Apr 1, 2021	Amina Enkhbold	University of Toronto	Monetary Policy Transmission, Bank Market Power, and Wholesale Funding Reliance
Apr 8, 2021	David McKenzie	杏吧论坛	Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessing the Evidence for “Training Doesn’t Work”
Apr 8, 2021	Agustin Samano	University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	International Reserves and Central Bank Independence
Apr 14, 2021	Yunsang Kim	Georgetown University	Distributional Effects of Exchange Rate Stabilization in Emerging Markets
Apr 22, 2021	Christopher Alexander Hoy	杏吧论坛	Improving tax compliance without raising revenue: Evidence from population wide randomized controlled trials in Papua New Guinea
May 6, 2021	Woan Foong Wong	University of Oregon	Export Markets and Long-Run Industry Adjustment: State, Private, and Foreign Firms in Vietnam
May 27, 2021	Carlos Vegh	Johns Hopkins University	Fiscal Cyclicality and Market Incompleteness
Jun 10, 2021	Leora Klapper	杏吧论坛	Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts
Jun 24, 2021	Angella Faith Montfaucon	杏吧论坛	Do Non-Tariff Measures Affect Exporters' Margins-Evidence from Indonesia

2020 Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 9, 2020	Martin Ravallion Co-author: Michael Lokshin	Georgetown University and University of Malaya	A Market for Work Permits: How to Make Migrants and Refugees More Popular in Host Countries&苍产蝉辫;∞
Jan 16, 2020	Gabriele Ciminelli Co-author(s): Davide Furceri, Jun Ge, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Chris Papageorgiou	Asia School of Business	The Political Costs of Reforms: Fear or Reality?
Feb 6, 2020	Kian Howe Ong Co-author: Rasyad Parinduri	University of Nottingham Ningbo China	The Effects of Mediums of Instruction on Educational- and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Malaysia
Feb 20, 2020	Markus Brueckner Co-author: Rabah Arezki	Australian National University	Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A New Perspective on the Resource Curse∞
Feb 27, 2020	David Cuberes and Marc Teignier	Clark University and University of Barcelona	The Aggregate Gains of Eliminating Gender and Ethnic Gaps in the Malaysian Labor Market
Apr 30, 2020	Jared Barton	University of Malaya and California State University Channel Islands	The U.S. – China Trade War: Who Was It Good For?
Jun 4, 2020	Filippo di Mauro	National University of Singapore	Assessing Small Store Performance in Malaysia
Jun 11, 2020	Nina Weimann-Sandig	Dresden University	Malaysia and its Transition Process Towards More Gender Equality at the Labor Market – Results from a Qualitative Study
Jul 16, 2020	Mahama Samir Bandaogo	杏吧论坛	Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Long-Term Growth Scenarios for Thailand
Aug 6, 2020	Guillermo Vuletin	杏吧论坛	Can automatic government spending be procyclical?
Sept 10, 2020	Alistair Dieppe, Gene Kindberg-Hanlon	European Central Bank and 杏吧论坛	Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies
Sept 24, 2020	Elizaveta Perova	杏吧论坛	In the light of what they know: how do local leaders make targeting decisions?
Oct 8, 2020	Alvaro Pedraza & Claudia Ruiz	杏吧论坛	Banking Sector Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis
Oct 15, 2020	Gonzalo Salinas	IMF	Proximity and Horizontal Policies: The Backbone of Export Diversification and Complexity
Nov 5, 2020	Tobias Pfutze	杏吧论坛	The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria
Nov 11, 2020	Norman Loayza	杏吧论坛	Recovery from the Pandemic across the World: Balancing Short-term and Long-term Concern
Nov 26, 2020	Yu Cao	杏吧论坛	Financial Constraints, Innovation Quality, and Growth
Dec 3, 2020	Tristan Reed	杏吧论坛	Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Dec 10, 2020	Steven Pennings & Arthur Mendes	杏吧论坛	One Rule Fits All? Heterogeneous Fiscal Rules for Commodity Exporters When Price Shocks Can Be Persistent: Theory and Evidence
Dec 17, 2020	Daniel Gerszon Mahler	杏吧论坛	Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

2019 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Sep 12, 2019	Marcela V. Parada Contzen	Universidad de Concepcion, Chile	Risk Attitudes and the Gender Pay Gap in a Developing Country
Oct 3, 2019	Donghyun Park, Shu Tian Co-Author: Marie Anne Cagas	Asian Development Bank	Bond Market Development and Bank Risk-Taking: Evidence from Developing Markets
Oct 17, 2019	?zer Karagedikli Co-authors: Severin Bernhard, Kenneth N Kuttner	The SEACEN Centre	Rationality and Expectation Formation at Central Banks
Oct 31, 2019	Zia Sadique	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	The Challenges of Economic Evaluation Alongside Large Clinical Trials: The UK Experience∞
Nov 21, 2019	Vengadeshvaran Sarma	University of Nottingham Malaysia	Does Maternal Migration affect Spousal Labour Supply? Evidence from Sri Lanka
Nov 28, 2019	Vijayendra Rao Co-author: Paromita Sanyal	杏吧论坛	Oral Democracy: An Analysis of Direct Democracy in India&苍产蝉辫;∞
Dec 10, 2019	Davide S. Mare	杏吧论坛	Global Financial Development Report 2019 / 2020: Bank Regulation and Supervision a Decade after the Global Financial Crisis

2019 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 8, 2019	Dimitrije Ruzic	INSEAD	Firms and Collective Reputation: the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal as a Case Study
Jan 24, 2019	Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle	Georgetown University and University of Malaya; Center for Global Development and University of Malaya	Informational Constraints on Antipoverty Policies: Evidence from Africa∞
Feb 14, 2019	Jong-Wha Lee. Co-Author: Warwick J. McKibbin	Korea University	Korean Unification: Economic Adjustments Under German Assumptions
Feb 21, 2019	Woong Yong Park Co-Authors: Saroj Battharai and Arpita Chatterjee	Seoul National University	Global Spillover Effects of US Uncertainty∞
Mar 7, 2019	Hyeok Jeong	Seoul National University	Productivity Growth and Efficiency Dynamics of Korea’s Structural Transformation
Mar 14, 2019	Klaus F. Zimmermann	Maastricht University	Economic Preferences Across Generations: Identifying Family Clusters from a Large-scale Experiment∞
Mar 21, 2019	Yoonsoo Lee	Sogang University	Long-term Shifts in Korean Manufacturing and Plant-level Dynamics
Apr 18, 2019	Adonis Antoniades	National University of Singapore	The Credit Concentration Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission
May 2, 2019	Quy-Toan Do Co-authors: Mohamed Abdel Jelil, Kartika Bhatia, Anne Brockmeyer, and Clement Joubert	杏吧论坛	Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Recruits
May 23, 2019	Davin Chor Co-authors: Filipe R. Campante, Bingjing Li	Dartmouth College and National University of Singapore	The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown∞
May 30, 2019	Derek Kok	Sunway University	Stunting in Malaysia: Costs, Causes and Courses for Action
Jul 11, 2019	Horng Chern Wong	University of Warwick	Wage Determination Across Firms

2018 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
13-Sep-18	Pablo Ega?a del Sol	Asia School of Business	The Role of Emotional Regulation on Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from Neurophysiological Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
20-Sep-18	Chaoran Chen	National University of Singapore	Capital-Skill Complementarity, Sectoral Labor Productivity, and Structural Transformation∞
27-Sep-18	Donghyun Park and Shu Tian	Asian Development Bank	The Price of Greenness: Some Evidence from Green Bond Markets
11-Oct-18	Laurence Todd and Wing Leong Teo	Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs; University of Nottingham Malaysia

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