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Current Season - 2025/2026
| Date | Authors | Affiliation | Topic |
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June 3, 2026 10am-11am DC time |
Mauricio Amaya, Daniel Angel, Raphael Espinoza, Niels-Jakob Hansen, and Ippei Shibata | IMF, IDB |
Crime Kills Economic Growth: New Evidence from Colombia on Homicides and Local Economic Activity |
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April 8, 2026 10am-11am DC time |
Menaka Hampole, Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Bryan Seegmiller | Yale School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University |
Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market |
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March 11, 2026 10:30am-11:30am DC time |
Diego Restuccia | University of Toronto, NBER |
On Productivity and Distortion across Countries |
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February 12, 2026 10am-11am DC time |
Rafael Guntin, Federico Kochen | University of Rochester; CEMFI & Banco de España |
The Origins of Top Firms |
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January 14, 2026 10am-11am DC time |
Emanuele Brancati, Michele Di Maio, Roberta Gatti, Asif M. Islam | Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), IZA Institute of Labor, World Bank |
Under Pressure: Global Evidence on Conflict and Firms |
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December 4, 2025 10am-11am DC time |
Adilya Abdrazakova (presenter), Luis Franjo García, Francesco Turino (presenter) | Universidad de Alicante |
Entrepreneurial Human Capital and Firm Informality |
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November 5, 2025 10am-11am DC time |
Maurizio Bussolo, Jonah M. Rexer (presenter), Lynn Hu | World Bank |
From Patriarchy to Policy: Norms, Votes, and Gender Equal Laws |
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October 15, 2025 11am-12pm DC time |
Michael W. Walker, Nachiket Shah, Edward Miguel, Dennis Egger, Felix Samy Soliman, Tilman Graff (presenter) | University of California, Berkeley; Oxford University; University of Zurich; Harvard University |
Slack and Economic Development |
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September 16, 2025 10am-11:30am DC time |
Maximilian Huppertz | University of Michigan, Bank of England |
David Dollar Memorial Prize 2025 Winning Paper Sacking the Sales Staff: Weather Shocks to Labor Productivity, Complementary Input Adjustments, and Their Climate Policy Implications |
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 |
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April 9, 2025 10am-11am DC time |
Alexander Beyleveld, Varun Eknath, Nuno Mendes dos Santos | World Bank |
Introducing the Business Ready International Trade indicators |
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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 |
Nicolás Cabra-Ruiz, Sandra V. Rozo (presenter), María Micaela Sviatschi | World Bank, 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, Réka Juhász, Nathan J. Lane, Giulia Lo Forte, Jeff Thurk (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, Beata Javorcik, 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 |
Felipe Brugues | Business School at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
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 Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (presenter) | World Bank and Universidad del Desarrollo |
World-wide Crime |
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October 16, 2024 |
Brian McCaig | Wilfrid Lauriel University, Canada |
Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities |
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September 18, 2024 |
Roberto N. Fattal Jaef and Davide S. Mare | World Bank and University of Edinburgh |
The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries |
Season - 2023/2024
| Date | Speakers | Affiliation | Topic |
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October 16, 2024 |
Brian McCaig | Wilfrid Lauriel University, Canada |
Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities |
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September 18, 2024 |
Roberto N. Fattal Jaef and Davide S. Mare | World Bank and University of Edinburgh |
The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries |
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June 13, 2024 |
Samuel Bazzi | University of California, San Diego |
Credit supply shocks and firms dynamics: evidence from Brazil |
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May 22, 2024 |
Iacopo Morchio | University of Bristol, UK, Columbia Business School |
The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences |
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April 17, 2024 |
Alessandro Ruggieri | CUNEF Universidad |
Labor Market Power and Development |
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March 20, 2024 |
Joseph S. Shapiro | University of California, Berkeley |
Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment |
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February 21, 2024 |
Djeneba Doumbia (World Bank), Imtiaz Ul Haq (International Finance Corporation), and Valentina Saltane (World Bank) | World Bank, IFC |
Issuer Composition and Stock Market Growth |
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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 |
| December 6, 2023 | Sebastian Link | ifo Institute, University of Munich, IZA, and CESifo |
The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages |
| November 15, 2023 | 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 |
| October 31, 2023 | Prepared and coordinated under the supervision of Serdar Çelik 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 |
| October 18, 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 World Bank |
Rebel Governance and Development: The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador |
| September 28, 2023 | Yulia Shapovalova, Patricia Zghibarta, Illia Chernohorenko, Svetozara Petkova, Jarosław Bełdowski, Vihar Georgiev, Oleksii Yurchenko and Veronica Bradautanu | Legal Transition Programme, EBRD and Dentons |
Lessons Learned from the EBRD Cross-Regional Court Performance Assessment Project |
| September 20, 2023 | Alejandro Granados, Jose Luis Peydro, Hernan Rincon Castro, Miguel Sarmiento | Banco de la República, Colombia, Inter-American Development Bank, and Imperial College, London |
Wealth Taxes and Firms’ Capital Structures: Credit Supply and Real Effects |
Season - 2022/2023
| Date | Speakers | Affiliation | Topic | |
| 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 |
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| May 10, 2023 | Sebastian Heise | Federal Reserve, Bank of New York |
Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions |
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| 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 |
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| March 8, 2023 | Julian di Giovanni, Manuel García-Santana, Priit Jeenas, Enrique Moral-Benito and Josep Pijoan-Mas | Federal Reserve Bank of New York; World Bank 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 |
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| February 8, 2023 | Stefanie Stancheva | Harvard University |
How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible |
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| January 31, 2023 | James A. Robinson, Alexander Vostroknutov and Ekaterina Vostroknutova | University of Chicago, Maastricht University and World Bank 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 |
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| November 16, 2022 | Salvatore Capasso, Franziska Ohnsorge and Shu Yu | University Parthenope of Napoli, World Bank Group |
From Financial Development to Informality: A Causal Link |
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| October 12, 2022 | Anna Minasyan and Gabriella Montinola | University of Groningen & University of California Davis |
Gendered Aid and Women Legal Empowerment |
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| September 14, 2022 | Titan Alon, Sena Coskun, Matthias Doepke, David Koll and Michèle Tertilt |
University of California at San Diego: Titan Alon Northwestern University: Matthias Doepke University of Mannheim: Sena Coskun, David Koll, Michèle 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 | Mohammad Amin | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis |
Exports and Female Workers in Formal Firms Presentation l Paper | Event Recording |
| February 17, 2021 | Klaus Peter Hellwig | IMF |
Can Disaggregated Indicators Identify Governance Reform Priorities? Paper| Event Recording |
| March 17, 2021 | Hibret Maemir | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis |
Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? : The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports Presentation l Paper| Event Recording |
| April 21, 2021 | Tea Trumbic | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Women, Business and the Law 2021 Report |
| May 19, 2021 | Luis Felipe Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco |
Luis Felipe Céspedes: Universidad de Chile Roberto Chang: Rutgers University and NBER Andrés Velasco: London School of Economics and CEPR |
Credit, Employment and COVID Crisis Paper | Event Recording |
| June 16, 2021 | Mohammad Amin and Domenico Viganola | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis |
Does Better Access to Finance Help Firms Deal with COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Firm-level Survey Data |
| September 29, 2021 | Nona Karalashvili, David Francis and Peter Murell | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis & University of Maryland |
Mapping the Landscape of Transactions: the Governance of Business Relations in Latin America |
| October 13, 2021 | Mohammad Amin | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis |
Does Competition from Informal Firms Hurt Job Creation by Formal Firms? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data |
| November 10, 2021 | Asif Islam and Silvia Muzi | World Bank 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, Anders Jensen | World Bank Group, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) |
Size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance: Global evidence and aggregate implications |
| January 19, 2022 | Stephie Fried and David Lagakos | Arizona State University & Boston University |
Electricity and Productivity: A General Equilibrium Approach |
| February 16, 2022 | Frederic Meunier | World Bank Group |
Entrepreneurship Database Project and We-Data: How did the COVID-19 impact business formation around the world? Event Recording |
| March 16, 2022 | Brian McCaig and Nina Pavcnik | Wilfrid Laurier University & Dartmouth University |
Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development |
| April 20, 2022 | Roberto N. Fattal Jaef, Kaleb Abreha, Xavier Cirera, Hibret Maemir and Elwyn Davies | World Bank Group |
Deconstructing the Missing Middle: Informality and Firms' Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| May 18, 2022 | Erica Bosio | World Bank Group |
Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies – A New eBook |
Note: Information on upcoming events is subject to change.