The Seminar Series is hosted by the Global Indicators Group of the Development Economics Vice Presidency. The series invites leading researchers in development economics and public policy to present their recent work in an academic-style seminar format.
| May 10, 2023 | Sebastian Heise | Federal Reserve, Bank of New York | Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| February 8, 2023 | Stefanie Stancheva | Harvard University | How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible | |
| January 31, 2023 | James A. Robinson, Alexander Vostroknutov and Ekaterina Vostroknutova | University of Chicago, Maastricht University andT 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 | |
| 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 | |
| October 12, 2022 | Anna Minasyan and Gabriella Montinola | University of Groningen & University of California Davis | Gendered Aid and Women Legal Empowerment | |
| 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 |
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| January 20, 2021 | Mohammad Amin | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Exports and Female Workers in Formal Firms |
| February 17, 2021 | Klaus Peter Hellwig | IMF | Can Disaggregated Indicators Identify Governance Reform Priorities? |
| March 17, 2021 | Hibret Maemir | World Bank Group, Enterprise Analysis | Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? : The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| 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.
