The Macroeconomics, Trade, and Finance Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department. The series invites leading researchers from the fields of macroeconomics, growth, trade, international integration and finance to present the results of their recent research in a seminar format.
Winter/Spring 2026 Seminars
For connection information, please contact Carmen Andira Watson (cwatson@worldbank.org).
Date |
Time |
Venue |
Speaker |
Paper |
Wednesday February 4, 2026 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
IMF (HQ1-9-611) | Janet Gao (Georgetown University) |
Partisan Friendshoring |
Thursday February 12, 2026 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
MC 4-100 |
Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth) - joint with Prosperity |
Geopolitics and the Rise and Fall of the 19th Century World Trading System: Lessons for Today |
Thursday February 19, 2026 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
G2-116 |
Marta Prato (Bocconi University) |
The Geography of Innovative Firms |
| Thursday March 5, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | G2-116 | Niklas Engbom (NYU) | The Long-term Decline of the U.S. Job Ladder |
| Thursday March 12, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | G2-116 | Wyatt Brooks (Arizona State) | Infrastructure and Local Development: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda |
| Thursday March 26, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | G2-116 | Francesco Amodio (McGill University) | Beefing Up the Service Sector: Commodity Export Booms and Production Network Spillovers |
| Wednesday April 1, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | IMF (HQ1-9-611) | Amir Kermani (Berkeley) | In the Fed’s Mind |
| Thursday April 9, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | MC 8-100 | Doireann Fitzgerald (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) | The Impact of Multinationals Along the Job Ladder |
| Thursday April 23, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | MC 6-100 | Filipe Campante (SAIS) | GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| Thursday April 30, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | MC 7-860 | Nathan Lane (London School of Economics) | Geopolitics and Export Miracles: Firm-Level Evidence from U.S. War Procurement in Korea |
| Thursday May 7, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | MC 4-100 | Marcela Eslava Mejia (Universidad de los Andes) | Jobless Modernity |
| Thursday May 14, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | MC 4-100 | Shawn Cole (Harvard Buiness School) | Returns to Private Debt in Emerging Markets |
| Thursday May 21, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | MC 5-100 | Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School) | |
| Thursday May 28, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | MC 4-100 | Pascal Michailllat (UC Santa Cruz) | |
| Wednesday June 3 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | IMF (HQ1-9-611) | Mary Amiti (NY Fed) |
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Last Updated: April 1, 2026
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