This Seminar Series is hosted by the Global Indicators Group of the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the World Bank. Livestreamed every month, the series invites leading researchers in development economics and public policy to present their recent work on international development, especially on private sector development.
Current Season - 2024/2025
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May 7, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Oriana Bandiera, Ananya Kotia, Ilse Lindenlaub, Christian Moser & Andrea Prat | London School of Economics, CEPR, Yale University, NBER, and Columbia Business School | Meritocracy Across Countries |
April 9, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Alexander Beyleveld, Varun Eknath, Nuno Mendes dos Santos | World Bank | Introducing the Business Ready International Trade indicators |
March 12, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Niklas Amberg, Richard Friberg, Chad Syverson | Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Chicago | Have We Got News for You: Firm-Level Evidence on the Optimal Choice of Expected Capacity Utilizati |
February 19, 2025 11am-12pm DC time | Nicolás Cabra-Ruiz, Sandra V. Rozo (presenter), María Micaela Sviatschi | World Bank, Princeton University | Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leaders, and Development in Origin Countries |
January 15, 2025 10am-11am DC time | Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Réka Juhász, Nathan J. Lane, Giulia Lo Forte, Jeff Thurk (presenter) | Yale University, University of British Columbia, University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, University of Georgia | Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector |
December 4 10am-11am DC time | Cagatay Bircan, Beata Javorcik, Stefan Pauly | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Barriers to Knowledge Creation in the Multinational Firm |
November 13 10am-11am DC time | Business School at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México | Take the Goods and Run: Contracting Frictions and Market Power in Supply Chains | |
November 7 12pm-01:15pm DC time | Martin Carrasco, Norman Loayza (presenter) and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (presenter) | World Bank and Universidad del Desarrollo | World-wide Crime |
October 16, 2024 | Wilfrid Lauriel University, Canada | Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities | |
September 18, 2024 | World Bank and University of Edinburgh | The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries |
Season - 2023/2024
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October 16, 2024 | Wilfrid Lauriel University, Canada | Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities | |
September 18, 2024 | World Bank and University of Edinburgh | The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries | |
June 13, 2024 | University of California, San Diego | Credit supply shocks and firms dynamics: evidence from Brazil | |
May 22, 2024 | University of Bristol, UK, Columbia Business School |
The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences | |
April 17, 2024 | CUNEF Universidad | Labor Market Power and Development | |
March 20, 2024 |
University of California, Berkeley | Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment | |
February 21, 2024 | Djeneba Doumbia (World Bank), Imtiaz Ul Haq (International Finance Corporation), and Valentina Saltane (World Bank) | World Bank, IFC | Issuer Composition and Stock Market Growth |
January 24, 2024 View details | Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen Cooper, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Jiannan Zhou | University of California Los Angeles, Gordon College, Cornell University, University of Colorado Boulder and Shandong University, China | Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being |
Sebastian Link | ifo Institute, University of Munich, IZA, and CESifo | The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages | |
Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, and Esau Tugume | University of Southern California and NBER, New York University and NBER, Columbia Business School and NBER, Northwestern University, and BRAC Uganda | Self-Employment Within the Firm | |
Prepared and coordinated under the supervision of Serdar Çelik by Daniel Blume, Akiko Shintani and Tiziana Londero, with contributions from others | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-OECD | Revised OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and OECD Corporate Governance Factbook 2023 | |
Antonella Bandiera, Lelys I. Dinarte Diaz, Juan Miguel Jimenez, Sandra V. Rozo, Maria Micaela Sviatschi | Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology, University of British Columbia, Princeton University and World Bank | Rebel Governance and Development: The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador | |
Yulia Shapovalova, Patricia Zghibarta, Illia Chernohorenko, Svetozara Petkova, Jarosław Bełdowski, Vihar Georgiev, Oleksii Yurchenko and Veronica Bradautanu | Legal Transition Programme, EBRD and Dentons | Lessons Learned from the EBRD Cross-Regional Court Performance Assessment Project | |
Alejandro Granados, Jose Luis Peydro, Hernan Rincon Castro, Miguel Sarmiento | Banco de la República, Colombia, Inter-American Development Bank, and Imperial College, London | Wealth Taxes and Firms’ Capital Structures: Credit Supply and Real Effects |
Season - 2022/2023
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| June 14, 2023 | Daniel Ramos-Menchelli and Diana Sverdlin Lisker | Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Fragmented Markets and the Proliferation of Small Firms: Evidence from Mom-and-Pop Shops in Mexico | |
| 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 and 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 |
Season - 2021/2022
Date | Speakers | 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 | Event Recording |
| 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.
Last Updated: Oct 09, 2024