This Seminar Series is hosted by the Global Indicators Group of the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. Livestreamed every month, the series invites leading researchers in development economics and public policy to present their recent work on international development, especially on private sector development.
Current Season - 2024/2025
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May 7, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Oriana Bandiera, Ananya Kotia, Ilse Lindenlaub, Christian Moser & Andrea Prat | London School of Economics, CEPR, Yale University, NBER, and Columbia Business School | Meritocracy Across Countries |
April 9, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Alexander Beyleveld, Varun Eknath, Nuno Mendes dos Santos | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ | Introducing the Business Ready International Trade indicators |
March 12, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Niklas Amberg, Richard Friberg, Chad Syverson | Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Chicago | Have We Got News for You: Firm-Level Evidence on the Optimal Choice of Expected Capacity Utilizati
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February 19, 2025 11am-12pm DC time | Nicol¨¢s Cabra-Ruiz, Sandra V. Rozo (presenter), Mar¨ªa Micaela Sviatschi | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Princeton University | Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leaders, and Development in Origin Countries
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January 15, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Pinelopi K. Goldberg, R¨¦ka Juh¨¢sz, Nathan J. Lane, Giulia Lo Forte, (presenter) | Yale University, University of British Columbia, University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, University of Georgia | Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector
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December 4 10am-11am DC time | Cagatay Bircan, , Stefan Pauly | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Barriers to Knowledge Creation in the Multinational Firm
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November 13 10am-11am DC time | Business School at Instituto Tecnol¨®gico Aut¨®nomo de M¨¦xico | Take the Goods and Run: Contracting Frictions and Market Power in Supply Chains
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November 7 12pm-01:15pm DC time | Martin Carrasco, Norman Loayza (presenter) and (presenter) | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Universidad del Desarrollo | World-wide Crime |
October 16, 2024 | Wilfrid Lauriel University, Canada | Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities | |
September 18, 2024 | and Davide S. Mare | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and University of Edinburgh | The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries |
Season - 2023/2024
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October 16, 2024 | Wilfrid Lauriel University, Canada | Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities | |
September 18, 2024 | and Davide S. Mare | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and University of Edinburgh | The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries |
June 13, 2024 | University of California, San Diego | Credit supply shocks and firms dynamics: evidence from Brazil | | |
May 22, 2024 | University of Bristol, UK, Columbia Business School |
The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences | | |
April 17, 2024 | CUNEF Universidad | Labor Market Power and Development | | |
March 20, 2024 |
University of California, Berkeley | Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment | | |
February 21, 2024 | (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), (International Finance Corporation), and Valentina Saltane (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, IFC | Issuer Composition and Stock Market Growth | |
January 24, 2024 View details | Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen Cooper, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Jiannan Zhou | University of California Los Angeles, Gordon College, Cornell University, University of Colorado Boulder and Shandong University, China | Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being P | |
Sebastian Link | ifo Institute, University of Munich, IZA, and CESifo | The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages | |
Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, and Esau Tugume | University of Southern California and NBER, New York University and NBER, Columbia Business School and NBER, Northwestern University, and BRAC Uganda | Self-Employment Within the Firm | | |
Prepared and coordinated under the supervision of Serdar ?elik by Daniel Blume, Akiko Shintani and Tiziana Londero, with contributions from others | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-OECD | Revised OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and OECD Corporate Governance Factbook 2023 | | |
Antonella Bandiera, Lelys I. Dinarte Diaz, Juan Miguel Jimenez, Sandra V. Rozo, Maria Micaela Sviatschi | Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology, University of British Columbia, Princeton University and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ | Rebel Governance and Development: The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador / | |
Yulia Shapovalova, Patricia Zghibarta, Illia Chernohorenko, Svetozara Petkova, Jaros?aw Be?dowski, Vihar Georgiev, Oleksii Yurchenko and Veronica Bradautanu | Legal Transition Programme, EBRD and Dentons | Lessons Learned from the EBRD Cross-Regional Court Performance Assessment Project | |
Alejandro Granados, Jose Luis Peydro, Hernan Rincon Castro, Miguel Sarmiento | Banco de la Rep¨²blica, Colombia, Inter-American Development Bank, and Imperial College, London | Wealth Taxes and Firms¡¯ Capital Structures: Credit Supply and Real Effects |
Season - 2022/2023
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| June 14, 2023 | Daniel Ramos-Menchelli and Diana Sverdlin Lisker | Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Fragmented Markets and the Proliferation of Small Firms: Evidence from Mom-and-Pop Shops in Mexico | | |
| Federal Reserve, Bank of New York | Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions | | |||
| April 12, 2023 | Marco Sanfilippo, Elena Perra, Asha Sundaram | University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Florence (Department of Economics), University of Auckland (Department of Economics) | Roads, Competition, and the Informal Sector | | |
| March 8, 2023 | , Manuel Garc¨ªa-Santana, , and | Federal Reserve Bank of New York; ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group; Pompeu Fabra University; Bank of Spain; and Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) | Government Procurement and Access to Credit: Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Implications | |
| Harvard University | How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible | | |||
| and | University of Chicago, Maastricht University and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group | Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy
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| December 7, 2022 | Jonas Hjort, Hannes Malmberg, Todd Schoellman | University College London, University of Minnesota, and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development | | |
| November 16, 2022 | , Franziska Ohnsorge and | University Parthenope of Napoli, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group | From Financial Development to Informality: A Causal Link | | |
| October 12, 2022 | and | University of Groningen & University of California Davis | Gendered Aid and Women Legal Empowerment | |
| September 14, 2022 | , , , and | University of California at San Diego: Titan Alon Northwestern University: Matthias Doepke University of Mannheim: Sena Coskun, David Koll, Mich¨¨le Tertilt, Wilfrid Laurier University: Brian McCaig | From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions |
Season - 2021/2022
Date | Speakers | Affiliation | Topic |
| January 20, 2021 | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Enterprise Analysis | Exports and Female Workers in Formal Firms l | | |
| February 17, 2021 | IMF | Can Disaggregated Indicators Identify Governance Reform Priorities? | | |
| March 17, 2021 | Hibret Maemir | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Enterprise Analysis | Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? : The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports Presentation l | |
| April 21, 2021 | Tea Trumbic | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Women, Business and the Law | |
| May 19, 2021 | , and | Luis Felipe C¨¦spedes: Universidad de Chile Roberto Chang: Rutgers University and NBER Andr¨¦s Velasco: London School of Economics and CEPR | Credit, Employment and COVID Crisis | |
| June 16, 2021 | and Domenico Viganola | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Enterprise Analysis | Does Better Access to Finance Help Firms Deal with COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Firm-level Survey Data |
| September 29, 2021 | , and | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Enterprise Analysis & University of Maryland | Mapping the Landscape of Transactions: the Governance of Business Relations in Latin America |
| October 13, 2021 | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Enterprise Analysis | Does Competition from Informal Firms Hurt Job Creation by Formal Firms? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data | |
| November 10, 2021 | and | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Middle East and North Africa Region & Enterprise Analysis | Mobile Money and Investment by Women Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| December 8, 2021 | Pierre Bachas, Roberto N. Fatal-Jaef, | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
| Size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance: Global evidence and aggregate implications |
| January 19, 2022 | and | Arizona State University & Boston University | Electricity and Productivity: A General Equilibrium Approach | |
| February 16, 2022 | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group |
Entrepreneurship Database Project and We-Data: How did the COVID-19 impact business formation around the world? | |
| March 16, 2022 | and | Wilfrid Laurier University & Dartmouth University |
Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development | |
| April 20, 2022 | Roberto N. Fattal Jaef, , , and | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group |
Deconstructing the Missing Middle: Informality and Firms' Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Paper | |
| May 18, 2022 | Erica Bosio | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group | Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies ¨C A New eBook |
Note: Information on upcoming events is subject to change.
Last Updated: Oct 09, 2024