The objective of the half-baked seminars is to foster the exchange of ideas within the group and to provide feedback to the presenter for further development of the initial work or idea.
The objective of the half-baked seminars is to foster the exchange of ideas within the group and to provide feedback to the presenter for further development of the initial work or idea.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| May 8, 2024 | Chiara Bronchi, Laura Zoratto, Eric Arias | World Bank, EGVPI | Country-Level Institutional Assessments |
| April 25, 2024 | Daniela M. Behr, Liang Shen, Ana Tribin, and Tea Trumbic | World Bank, Women, Business and the Law | The Handmaid’s Tale: Climate Change as an Obstacle to Women’s Rights and Economic Empowerment? |
| March 21, 2024 | Jayashree Srinivasan, Enrique Orellana Tamez, Victoria Chiseliov, Camille Guittonneau and Trang Doan | World Bank, B-Ready | Understanding building energy codes and standards - Leveraging data to understand adoption and compliance of energy efficiency standards |
| February 29, 2024 | Davide S. Mare | World Bank, Enterprise Analysis | Distributional impact of the introduction of carbon taxes: the case of the Dominican Republic |
| January 25, 2024 | Mohammad Amin | World Bank, Enterprise Analysis | Productivity in the Hotels industry: Conceptual issues, Estimation, and Analysis |
| December 14, 2023 | Maksym Iavorskyi | World Bank, Subnational Business Ready/FCI (DAIS) | Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: Global Regulatory Challenges of Crypto Insolvencies |
| November 30, 2023 | Ana Tribin | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Gender-Based Violence After Armed Conflict: The Case of the Colombian Peace Agreement |
| September 28, 2023 | Raman Maroz | World Bank, Business Ready | The Cross-Regional Court Performance Assessment |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| June 22,2023 | Nona Karalashvili and Jorge Rodriguez Meza | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Question Design and its Effect on Responses: the Case of Management Practices |
| June 15, 2023 | Hannelore Maria L. Niesten | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Taxation of Digital Financial Services vis-à-vis Traditional Financial Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Costs on Providers and Consumers based on Nine Country Studies |
| April 20, 2023 | Daniela Behr and Caroline Perrin | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Drivers of Gender Legal Reforms |
| March 16, 2023 | Dorina Georgieva, Varun Eknath, Michael Woolcock | World Bank Group | Examining Business Reform Committees: Findings from a New Global Dataset |
| January 26, 2023 | Serena Cocciolo, Ruggero Doino, and Domenico Viganola | World Bank Group | Firms and SMEs participation in Public Procurement: Global Statistics from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys |
| December 15, 2022 | Nona Karalashvili | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Toward Understanding Reasons behind Informality: Text Analysis of an Open-Ended Survey Question |
| December 1, 2022 | Lelys Dinarte, Alena Sakhonchik, Maria Montoya Aguirre, S. Anukriti, Marina Elefante | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Filling the Gaps: Childcare Laws for Women’s Economic Empowerment |
| November 17, 2022 | Filip Jolevski, Gaurav Nayyar, Regina Pleninger, Shu Yu | World Bank Group | Digitalization Spillovers from Formal to Informal Firms: Adoption of ITC in Zambia |
| November 3, 2022 | Christopher Hoy, Laban Simbeye, Muhammad Abdullah Ali Malik, Aliisa Koivisto, Mashekwa Maboshe | World Bank Group, Zambia Revenue Authority, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), University of Zambia | How Have Formal Firms Recovered from the Pandemic? Insights from Survey and Tax Administrative Data in Zambia |
| October 20, 2022 | Mohammad Amin and Domenico Viganola | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Impact of Financial Constraints on the Decision to Export |
| October 6, 2022 | Domenico Viganola and Silvia Muzi | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Comparing Face-to-Face Versus Virtual Interviews in Firm-Level Surveys |
| September 22, 2022 | Marie Caitriona Hyland and Caroline Perrin | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Gendered laws and women’s financial inclusion |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January 13, 2022 | Julia Constanze Braunmiller and Marie Dry | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Measuring Intersectional Discrimination –The Rights of Women with Disabilities | |
| January 27, 2022 | Viktoriya Ereshchenko, Varun Eknath and Inés Zabalbeitia Múgica | World Bank Group, Global Indicators | The importance of facilitating imports: evidence from the auto industry | |
| February 10, 2022 | Jayashree Srinivasan, Enrique Orellana Tamez, Kamal Chakaroun, Lodovico Onofri, Farrukh Umarov | World Bank Group, Global Indicators | Leveraging Building Energy Codes and Standards for Climate Change Mitigation | |
| February 24, 2022 | Filip Joleski, Asif Islam and Mohammad Amin | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Decomposing the SME-Large firm Performance Gap during the COVID-19 pandemic: Productivity, Innovation, and Gender Inequality | |
| March 10, 2022 | David Francis and Robert Kubinec | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis and New York University Abu Dhabi | Beyond Political Connections: A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies | |
| March 24, 2022 | Marie Hyland and Liang Chen | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | A Global Analysis of Paid Family Leave and Women's Economic Labor Market Outcomes | |
| April 14, 2022 | Gemechu Aga, Hibret Maemir, Jorge Rodriguez Meza and Taneem Ahad | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Measuring Regulatory Uncertainty using Firm-Level Surveys: Evidence from three African countries | |
| Apil 28, 2022 | Parvina Rakhimova | World Bank Group, Global Indicators Group | Gender-based Property Tax Incentives: Role in Encouraging Female Ownership and Improving Compliance | |
| May 5, 2022 | Tiziana Londero, Raman Maroz, and Oleksandra Popova | World Bank Group, Global Indicators Group | Digitizing court proceedings and corporate governance. What have we learned from the pandemic? | |
| May 12, 2022 | Antoni Albert Nogui, Nunon Mendes Dos Santos, Lama Mohammed L. Al Jarallah | World Bank Group, Global Indicators Group | Did digitization in public services have an impact in the COVID-19 response? The case of eProcurement. | |
| May 26, 2022 | Natalia Mazoni and Nisha Arekapudi, Isabel Santagostino and Emilia Galiano, Julia Braunmiller and Marie Dry | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Three Lightning Talks on Women, Business and the Law (WBL) Reform Case Studies | |
| June 9, 2022 | Luca Bettarelli and Tommaso Rooms | World Bank Group, Global Indicators Group | Regional Heterogeneity in the Business Environment: the Case of Italy |
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| January 14, 2021 | Silvia Muzi and Domenico Viganola | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | The determinant of firm survival Firm Exit during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from the Enterprise Surveys |
| January 28, 2021 | Nona Karalashvili and Nazim Tamkoc | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Effectiveness of Government Support for the Private Sector during COVID19 |
| February 11, 2021 | David C. Francis and Joshua Seth Wimpey | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Do informal and formal businesses operate in the same places? Evidence from micro data in Laos’ food service sector. |
| February 24, 2021 | Filip Jolevski and Gemechu Aga | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Measuring the Informal Employment on the Intensive and Extensive Margins: the case of Zambia |
| March 11, 2021 | David Francis | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | The effect of inflationary shocks on household business operation in Uganda |
| April 29, 2021 | Tea Trumbic and Marie Catriona Hyland | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Women, Business and the Law: Ideas for Future Research |
| TBD | Mohammad Amin | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | How Corruption Affects Access to Finance |
| May 13, 2021 | David Francis and Robert Kubinec | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Measuring Political Influence as a Latent Characteristic: Evidence from Micro-Data from 36 Countries in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa |
| May 27, 2021 | Antoni Albert Nogues Comas and Nuno Filipe Mendes Dos Santos | World Bank Group, Doing Business | Building an Indicator to Compare Public Procurement Regulations and Practices |
| June 10, 2021 | Marie Catriona Hyland and Asif Mohammed Islam | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law & MENA | Gendered Law, Informality and the Performance of Female-Owned Firms |
| July 29, 2021 | Nazim Tamkoc | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Bribery, Plant Size and Size Dependent Distortions |
| September 8, 2021 | Joshua Wimpery, David C. Francis, Gemechu Aga, Filip Jolevski and Jorge Rodriguez Meza | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Surveying Informal Businesses: Methodology and Applications |
| October 7, 2021 | Nisha Arekapudi | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis & Women, Business and the Law | Measuring implementation of Women, Business and the Law indicators |
| October 21, 2021 | Silvia Muzi, Marie Hyland and Domenico Viganola | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis & Women, Business and the Law | Female-managed businesses in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) during the COVID-19 crisis |
| November 4, 2021 | Adam Aberra, Gemechu Aga, Filip Jolevski and Nona Karalashvili | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Understanding Informality: Comprehensive Firm-level Data and Descriptive Results |
| November 18, 2021 | Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Joshua Wimpey | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Childcare, COVID-19 and Female Firm Exit: Impact of COVID-19 School Closure Policies on Global Gender Gaps in Business |
| December 2, 2021 | Women, Business and the Law Team | World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law | Women, Business and the Law Childcare indicators and research |
| December 16, 2021 | Nazim Tamkoc | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Production Complexity, Talent Misallocation and Development |
| TBD | Marie Catriona Hyland, Silvia Muzi and Domenico Viganola | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis & Women, Business and the Law | Exploration of the Gender Dimension of the Impact of Covid-19 |
TBD: To be determined
Note: Information on upcoming events is subject to change.