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The Macroeconomics of PandemicsChair: Aart Kraay, Director of Research (World Bank) Speakers:
Francesco Lippi (LUISS University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Roberto N. Fattal Jaef (World Bank) | Presentation (Updated on June 3) Discussant:
Ana Paula Cusolito, Senior Economist, World Bank Papers: A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown The Macroeconomics of Epidemics The Economic Ripple Effects of COVID-19 | April 1, 2020 11am - 12:30pm ET | Video
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Macroeconomic Policy in the Time of COVID-19: A Primer for Developing CountriesChair:
Bill Maloney (World Bank) Speaker:
Norman Loayza (World Bank) | Presentation Discussants:
Roberto Chang (Rutgers University) | Presentation
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (UC Berkeley) | Presentation
Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard Kennedy School)
Andrés Velasco (London School of Economics) | Presentation Documents: Policy Brief | April 7, 2020 9 - 10:30am ET | Video |
Policies for Small and Informal FirmsChair:
Aart Kraay, Director of Research (World Bank) Speakers:
Leonardo Iacovone, Lead Economist (World Bank) | Presentation
Santiago Levy, Senior Fellow (The Brookings Institution)
Miriam Bruhn, Senior Economist (World Bank) | Presentation Documents: Suggestions for the Emergency
Assessing the Impact and Policy Responses in Support of Private-Sector Firms in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic | April 9, 2020 9 - 10:30am ET | Video |
Understanding the Epidemiology of COVID-19Chair:
Roberta Gatti, Chief Economist, Human Development Speakers:
Damien de Walque, Senior Economist (World Bank) | Presentation
Jed Friedman, Senior Economist (World Bank)
Patrick Walker, Lecturer, Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team) | Presentation
Azra Ghani, Professor, Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team)
David Wilson, Program Director, Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice (World Bank)
Marelize Gorgens, Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice (World Bank) Report: The Global Impact of COVID-19 and Strategies for Mitigation and Suppression | April 14, 2020 9 - 10:30am ET | Video |
The Politics of PandemicsChair:
Aart Kraay, Director of Research (World Bank) Speakers:
Filipe Campante, Associate Professor (Johns Hopkins University) | Presentation
Stuti Khemani, Senior Economist (World Bank) | Presentation Discussant:
Antonio Spilimbergo, Deputy Director, Research Department (IMF) | Presentation Paper: The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S. | April 16, 2020 9 - 10:30am ET | Video
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Supporting Poor Households Affected by COVID-19Part I: Designing Social Safety Net Programs in the Era of COVID-19 Martin Ravallion, Professor (Georgetown University) | Paper
Carolina Sanchez-Paramo, Global Director (Poverty and Equity GP)
Ugo Gentilini, Senior Social Protection Specialist (Social Protection and Jobs GP)
Emanuela Galasso, Senior Economist (World Bank) | Presentation Part II: Payment Logistics to Get Cash to the Neediest Jenny Aker, Professor (Tufts University) | Presentation
Carolina Trivelli, Senior Researcher (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos) & former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru
Ruth Goodwin-Groen, Managing Director (UNCDF Better than Cash Alliance) | Presentation
Leora Klapper, Lead Economist (World Bank) Additional Resources: Poverty and Distributional Impacts of COVID-19: Potential Channels of Impact and Mitigating Policies
Better than Cash Alliance Webinar: Digital Payments in Ebola Response | April 20, 2020 11am - 12:30pm ET | Video |
Trade and Global Value Chains in the Age of COVID-19Chair:
Aaditya Mattoo, Chief Economist, East Asia & Pacific Region (World Bank) Speakers:
The COVID Concussion and Supply-Chain Contagion Waves
Richard Baldwin, Professor, Graduate Institute Geneva | Presentation The Role of Supply Chains in the Propagation of Economic Effects
Vasco Carvalho, Professor, Cambridge University | Presentation Trade Policy Dynamics Unleashed by COVID-19
Simon Evenett, Professor, University of St Gallen | Presentation | April 22, 2020 9 - 10:30am ET | Video |
Financiamiento de Empresas Hibernando durante el Coronavirus
(Financing Firms in Hibernation during the Coronavirus Pandemic)Please note this event was conducted in Spanish Organized by
Escuela de Administración – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
World Bank Research and Development Center in Chile Chair: José Tessada (Universidad Católica de Chile) Speakers:
Mauricio Larraín (Financial Markets Commission, Chile; Universidad Católica de Chile) | World Bank Research and Policy Brief
Rodrigo Valdés (Universidad Católica de Chile; Former Finance Minister, Chile)
Fernando Coloma (Universidad Católica de Chile; Former Superintendent, Chile)
Diego Fleischmann (Executive Director Migrante Sociedad Financiera) | April 22, 2020 1:30 - 2:30pm ET | Video |
Financial Sector Policies to Salvage Firms Hit by COVID-19Chair:
Bill Maloney, Chief Economist (Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions) Speakers:
Financing Firms in Hibernation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sergio Schmukler (World Bank) (Joint work with Tatiana Didier, Federico Huneeus, and Mauricio Larrain) | Presentation Evergreening Loans and Liquidity Life-Lines
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University) | Presentation Supporting Indebted SMEs and “Stress Tests” for Banks
Viral Acharya (New York University) | Presentation Finance in the Time of COVID-19: What Next?
Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School) | Presentation Discussant:
Alfonso Garcia Mora, Global Director (Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation) | Presentation
| April 29, 2020 11am - 12:30pm ET | Video |
Maintaining Finance for Firms Impacted by COVID-19: Perspectives for East AsiaOpening Remarks:
Alfonso Garcia Mora, Global Director (World Bank Group) Speakers:
The Impact of COVID-19 on Financial Markets
Ilhyock Shim, Head of Economics and Financial Markets for Asia and the Pacific Monetary and Economic Department (Bank for International Settlements) | Presentation Financing Firms during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sergio Schmukler, Lead Economist and Acting Research Manager (Development Research Group, World Bank) | Presentation
(joint work with Tatiana Didier, Federico Huneeus, and Mauricio Larrain) COVID-19 and the Chinese Corporate Bond Market
Yi Huang, Associate Professor of International Economics (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
(joint work with Jun “QJ” Qian, Dora Xia, and Yaya Yu) Maintaining Financing for Firms: Perspectives from Singapore
Joseph Cherian, Practice Professor of Finance (National University of Singapore) | Presentation More information about this event » | Eastern Daylight Time
May 4, 2020 9:30 - 11:00pm Kuala Lumpur Time
May 5, 2020 9:30 - 11:00am | Video |
Labor Mobility, Migration, and COVID-19 (Part 1)Chair:
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region Speakers:
Restarting an Economy with Heavy Reliance on Cross-Border Workers
Frédéric Docquier, Professor (Universite Catholique de Louvain) and Program Leader (LISER, Luxembourg) | Presentation Social Protection for Migrants during the COVID-19 Crisis
Michal Rutkowski, Global Director, Social Protection and Jobs (World Bank) | Presentation | May 7, 2020 9 - 10am ET | Video |
Labor Mobility, Migration, and COVID-19 (Part 2)Chair: Aart Kraay, Director of Research (World Bank) Speakers:
Responding to COVID-19 in Developing Countries
Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics (Yale University) | Presentation Labor Mobility and Pandemics
Erhan Artuc, Senior Economist (Development Research Group) | Presentation Documents:
Using Migration Patterns to Predict COVID-19 Risk Exposure in Developing Countries: Paper | Policy Brief | May 14, 2020 9:30 - 10:30am ET | Video |
The Impact of COVID-19 in Latin AmericaOrganized by
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Centro de Finanzas Empresariales, Chile
World Bank Research and Development Center in Chile Chair:
Martin Rama, Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region (World Bank) Opening Remarks:
Ignacio Briones, Minister of Finance (Chile) Speakers:
Laura Alfaro, Professor, (Harvard Business School); Former Minister of Planning and Economic Policy (Costa Rica) | Presentation
Guillermo Calvo, Professor (Columbia University); Former Chief Economist (Inter-American Development Bank) | Presentation
Mauricio Cárdenas, Senior Research Scholar (Columbia University); Former Minister of Finance (Colombia)
Andres Velasco, Dean, School of Public Policy (London School of Economics); Former Minister of Finance (Chile) More information about this event » | May 19, 2020 11:30am - 1pm ET | Video |
Air Pollution Exposure and COVID-19: Evidence and Unanswered QuestionsChair:
Richard Damania, Chief Economist (Sustainable Development Practice Group, World Bank) Speakers:
David Wheeler, Senior Fellow (World Resources Institute)
Bo Pieter Johannes Andrée, Consultant (Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Unit, World Bank)
Anna Hansell, Professor and Director of the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (University of Leister) Discussants:
Somik Lall, Global Lead for Territorial and Spatial Development (World Bank)
Urvashi Narain, Lead Economist, South Asia Region (World Bank) More information about this event » | June 11, 2020 11:00am - 12:30pm ET | Video |
Different Strategies for Different Contexts: Fighting the Pandemic in Developing CountriesChair:
Aart Kraay, Director of Research, World Bank Presentations:
Costs and Trade-Offs in the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Developing Country Perspective
Norman Loayza, Lead Economist, Development Research Group | Presentation How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World? Titan Alon, University of California, San Diego | Presentation
Minki Kim, University of California, San Diego
David Lagakos, University of California, San Diego
Mitchell VanVuren, University of California, San Diego More information about this event » | June 23, 2020 9:00 - 10:30am (ET/ Washington, D.C. time) | Video |
The Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19Chair:
William Maloney, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, World Bank Speakers:
Nick Bloom, Professor, Stanford University | Presentation
Edward Glaeser, Professor, Harvard University | Presentation
Bob Rijkers, Senior Economist, Development Research Group | Presentation
David Autor, Professor, MIT | Presentation More information about this event » | July 6, 2020 11am - 12:30pm ET | Video |
The Long-term Impacts of School ClosuresChair:
Jamie Saavedra, Global Director, Education, World Bank Speakers:
Jishnu Das, Professor, Georgetown University | Presentation
João Pedro Azevedo, Lead Economist, World Bank | Presentation More information about this event » | July 9, 2020 12:30 - 2pm ET | Video |
Channeling Capital Flows to Developing Countries: Can International Financial Institutions Help?Chair:
Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, World Bank Speakers:
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor, UC Berkeley
Anne Krueger, Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University & Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Carmen Reinhart, Vice President and World Bank Group Chief Economist
Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research, BIS
Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Deputy Director, Strategy and Policy Review, IMF More information about this event » | July 15, 2020 12:30 - 2pm ET | Video |
Recovery from the Pandemic across the World: Balancing Short-term and Long-term ConcernsChair:
Andrea Repetto, Professor and UAI Senior Fellow, School of Government (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) Welcome:
Julio Riutort, Assistant Professor of Finance, School of Business (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
Sergio Schmukler, Research Manager, Development Research Group (World Bank) Speakers:
Norman Loayza, Lead Economist, Development Research Group (World Bank) | Presentation
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Deputy Director, Research Department (IMF) | Presentation
Eric Parrado, Chief Economist and General Manager, Research Department (Inter-American Development Bank, IADB) | Presentation More information about this event » | November 11, 2020 9:00 - 10:15am (Eastern Time, U.S.) | Video |
