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.
Spring 2024 Seminars
For connection information, please contact Carmen Andira Watson (cwatson@worldbank.org).
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 7, 2024 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) | 12:00 - 1:00pm | IMF HQ1-9-611 | Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University) | The International Monetary System and Safe Assets |
| Wednesday March 6, 2024 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) | 12:00 - 1:00pm | IMF HQ1-9-611 | Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University) | On the Investment Network and Development |
| Thursday March 14, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Kirill Borusyak (University of California, Berkeley) | Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks |
| Thursday March 21, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ariel Burstein (UCLA) | Supplier Churn and Growth: A Micro-to-Macro Analysis |
| Thursday March 28, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University) | Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend |
| Thursday April 4, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Yingyan Zhao (George Washington University) | No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India |
| Thursday April 11, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) | Global Supply Chains: The Looming “Great Reallocation” |
| Thursday April 25, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Hannes Malmberg (University of Minnesota) | The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture |
| Thursday May 2, 2024 (Joint with IMF, hosted by World Bank) | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Kerem Cosar (University of Virginia) | The Baltic Exchange: Weather Risk and International Trade in Early Modern Europe |
| Thursday May 9, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Christian Dustmann (University College London) | The Effects of Immigration on Places and Individuals – Identification and Interpretation |
| Thursday May 16, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-500 | Shafaat Yar Khan (Syracuse University) | Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of U.S.-China Trade |
| Thursday May 30, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Gerard Padro (Yale University) | |
| Wednesday June 5, 2024 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) | Diego Comin (Dartmouth) |
Fall 2023 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday September 28, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | Online | Matteo Maggiori (Stanford University) | A Framework for Geoeconomics |
| Thursday October 5, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame) | How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda |
| Thursday October 12, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Felipe Saffie (University of Virginia) | Political Connections, Allocation of Stimulus Spending, and the Jobs Multiplier |
| Thursday October 19, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sina Ates (Federal Reserve Board) | Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World |
| Wednesday November 1, 2023 (Joint with and hosted by IMF) | 12:00 - 1:00pm ET | HQ1-9-611 (IMF) | Sean Higgins (Northwestern University) | Why Small Firms Fail to Adopt Profitable Opportunities |
| Thursday November 2, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia SIPA) | The Trade War and American Soft Power: Evidence from Movies, Cars, and Trust |
| Thursday November 9, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ebehi Iyoha (Harvard Business School) | Third-Country Effects of the US-China Trade War: A Firm-level Analysis |
| Thursday November 16, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ishan Nath | Agriculture, Trade, and the Spatial Efficiency of Global Water Use |
| Thursday November 30, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Kory Kroft (University of Toronto) | Earnings Inequality in Production Networks |
| Thursday December 7, 2023 (Joint with IMF) | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Conor Walsh (Columbia Business School) | Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis |
Spring 2023 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 1, 2023 (Joint with IMF) | 12:00 - 1:00pm ET | Online | John Cochrane (Stanford University) | The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Expectations and the Neutrality of Interest Rates |
| Thursday March 2, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | Online | Thomas Philippon (NYU) | Additive Growth |
| Thursday March 9, 2023 | Part 1: Part 2: | MC 3-570 | Anton Korinek (U VA/Brookings) | Part 1: Using Large Language Models and Cognitive Automation for Economic Research Part 2: “The economics of transformative AI” (covering papers on work, development, growth and alignment) Note that attendees are welcome to attend either or both parts of this seminar. |
| Thursday March 16, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board) | Understanding the Inequality and Welfare Impacts of Carbon Tax Policies |
| Thursday March 23, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Diego Perez (NYU) | The Macroeconomic Implications of US Market Power in Safe Assets |
| Thursday March 30, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Dietrich Vollrath (U Houston) | Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism |
| Thursday April 6, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Costas Arkolakis (Yale) | Clean Growth |
| Wednesday May 3, 2023 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | Ryan Kim (Johns Hopkins SAIS) | Spillovers through Multimarket Firms: The Uniform Product Replacement Channel | |
| Thursday May 11, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sebastian Sotelo | Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective |
| Thursday May 18, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Nancy Qian (Kellogg School of Management) | The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy |
| Thursday May 25, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago) | On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes |
| Thursday June 8, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | David Nagy (Princeton) | The Death and Life of Great British Cities |
| Thursday June 15, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ezra Oberfield (Princeton) | Growth and the Fragmentation of Production |
| Thursday June 22, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Joseph Shapiro | Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment |
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Last Updated: Apr 30, 2024