World Bank Research and Development Center in Chile

UPCOMING 

• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture | Hannes Malmberg (University of Minnesota) | April 25, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• 6^th Annual World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation | September 26-27, 2024 | Paper submissions due by April 15, 2024

PAST

• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Global Supply Chains: The Looming “Great Reallocation” | Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) | April 11, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• WDR 2024 Seminar Series | Open Digital Payment Infrastructure and Credit Access: Evidence from India's UPI | Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) | April 9, 2024 | 9:00 – 10:00am ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India | Yingyan Zhao (George Washington University) | April 4, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend | Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University) | March 28, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Policy Research Talk | Self-Arming or Self-Harming? Assessing Trade Policies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | March 26, 2024 | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Supplier Churn and Growth: A Micro-to-Macro Analysis | Ariel Burstein (UCLA) | March 21, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks | Kirill Borusyak (University of California, Berkeley) | March 14, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | On the Investment Network and Development | Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University) | March 6, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:00pm ET
• ASSA 2024 Annual Meeting | Paper Session: International Capital Flows, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Risks | January 5, 2024 | 8:00 - 10:00am CST 
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis | Conor Walsh (Columbia Business School) | December 7, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Earnings Inequality in Production Networks | Kory Kroft (University of Toronto and NBER) | November 30, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• World Development Report 2024 Seminar Series | Higher Education for Social Mobility and Talent Development: The Case of Chile | Sebastian Gallegos (Adolfo Ibáñez University) and Ricardo Paredes (Minister, Free Trade Special Court) | October 25, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30pm ET
• Ninth IMF-WB-WTO Trade Conference | October 24-25, 2023
• WDR 2024 Series | Distortions and Firm Dynamics in Development Countries | Roberto Fattal Jaef (World Bank) | October 18, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World | Sina Ates (Federal Reserve Board) | October 19, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Political Connections, Allocation of Stimulus Spending, and the Jobs Multiplier | Felipe Saffie (University of Virginia) | October 10, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda | Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame) | October 5, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | A Framework for Geoeconomics | Mateo Maggiori (Stanford University) | September 28, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• World Development Report 2024 Seminar Series | The Developmental Trinity: Institutions, Infrastructure, and Technology | Craig Chikis (University of Chicago) | September 27, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30pm ET
• Global Indicators Seminar Series | Wealth Taxes and Firms’ Capital Structures: Credit Supply and Real Effects | Miguel Sarmiento (Banco de la República, Colombia) | September 20, 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00 PM ET
• The 5th World Bank/IFS/ODI Tax Conference: The Political Economy of Public Finances | September 21-22, 2023
• Policy Research Talk | World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies | June 29, 2023 | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Speaker: Joseph Shapiro (Berkeley) | Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment | June 22, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET | Webex Connection
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series | Speaker: Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University & NBER) | Growth and the Fragmentation of Production | June 15, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm ET
• Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE): Growth and Resilience | June 5-6, 2023 | Register
• Knowledge Seminar on Trade and Private Sector Development | June 1, 2023 | Attend In Person | Attend Virtually
• Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Policy | May 17, 2023 | 9:00am - 5:30pm ET | Register to attend virtually
• Covid-19 Pandemic and SMEs Performance in Latin America | LCR Economics Seminar Series | April 21, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:00pm EDT | Join using Webex
  
• Trade and Global Value Chains in Times of Insecurity | May 2-3, 2023
• Policy Research Talk | The Long Term Growth Model: Fundamentals, Extensions, and Applications | Presentation | Recording | Book | March 21, 2023 | 10:00 - 11:30am ET
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar | Understanding the Inequality and Welfare Impacts of Carbon Tax Policies | Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board) | March 16, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar | Part 1: Using Large Language Models and Cognitive Automation for Research | Part 2: The Economics of Transformative Al | Anton Korinek (University of Virginia / Brookings) | March 9, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:45pm
• World Bank-IMF Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar | Additive Growth | Thomas Philippon (New York University Stern) | March 2, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:15pm
• 20 Years of Research, Data, and Analytics on Poverty, Inequality and Human Capital
  February 2, 2023 | 9:00am - 12:00pm EST | Register (Zoom)
• Services and Structural Transformation Workshop
  February 1, 2023 | 9:00am - 5:00pm EST
• Macro/Trade/Finance Seminar Series: The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Expectations and the Neutrality of Interest Rates | John Cochrane (Stanford University)
  February 1, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:00pm EST
• 7th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference
  January 30-31, 2023
• IFC Flagship Conference on Competition and Productivity: Fostering Private Sector Growth
  January 23-24, 2023
• The long and unequal road to recovery after COVID-19: Results of the High-Frequency Phone Surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean Region 2021
  November 14, 2022 | 10:00 - 11:00am ET
• The Global Findex, Financial Inclusion & Resilience
  November 15, 2022 | 10:00 - 11:30am ET
• Shocks and Global Imbalances: Conflicts, Migration and Climate Change
  November 2, 2022 | 9:00am - 12:00pm ET | Join using Zoom
• The road to equality: New approaches to closing the fiscal gap 
  English | Español
  Watch in English | Ver en español
  October 6, 2022, 12:00pm ET
• LCR Economics Seminar Series: "Does Countercyclical Fiscal Policy Pay? The Relevance of Fiscal Acyclicality"
  October 5, 2022, 10:00am - 12:30pm ET | Join using Webex
• 4th Washington Area International Finance Symposium
  September 23, 2022 | Register (In Person) | Connect (Virtual)
• 4th World Bank Tax Conference: Global Tax Equity
  September 22-23, 2022 | Virtual Registration
• 7ª Conferencia de Desarrollo y Estabilidad Financiera de la Comisión para el Mercado Financiero (CMF) 
  August 26, September 2, and September 9, 2022
• Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2022: Recovery, Reform, and Business Environment
  June 21-24, 2022
• LCR Economics Seminar: The Good, the Bad, and the not-so Ugly of Credit Booms: Capital Allocation and Financial Constraints
  June 27, 2022 | 2:00 - 3:30 EST
  Speaker: Claudio Raddatz (University of Chile)
  Discussant: Ana Paula Cusolito (World Bank)
  Chair: William Maloney (World Bank)
• LCR Seminar | The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality | Video
  May 10, 2022
  Speaker: Oded Galor (Brown University) | Presentation
  Discussant: Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia) | Comments
  Discussant: Sergio Schmukler (World Bank) | Comments
  Chair: William Maloney (World Bank)
• MTI Seminar | The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Default: An Analysis of Debt Dilution | Video
  May 5, 2022
  Speaker: Mark Aguiar (Princeton University) | Presentation
  Discussant: Sergio Schmukler (World Bank) | Comments
  Chair: Marcello Estevão (World Bank)
• Call for applications to the Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program (due April 4, 2022) 
• ASSA Annual Meetings 2022
  Jan 7-9, 2022, Boston
  Session: Firm Performance during Crises | Watch the Video
  Organizer: Sergio Schmukler (World Bank)
  Chair: Jose Tessada (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
  
• LACEA-LAMES Annual Meetings 2021
  October 20-22, 2021
  Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
  Session: Firm Performance during Crises
  Organizer: Sergio Schmukler (World Bank)
  Chair: Andrea Repetto (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
  
• 3rd World Bank Tax Conference: New Tax Instruments
  September 30-October 1, 2021
  
• Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2021: Global Unrest
  June 21–25, 2021
  
• From Micro to Macro: Using Micro Data to Understand Macroeconomics and Public Policy
  May 7, 2021 | 12-1:30 pm (USA, ET / Chile) | 11 am-12:30 pm, Colombia
• De lo Micro a lo Macro: Usando Datos Micro para Entender la Macroeconomía y la Política Pública
  7 de Mayo 2021 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm (USA, ET / Chile) | 11 am - 12:30 pm, Colombia
• Call for applications to the Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program (due April 30, 2021)
• ASSA Annual Meeting, January 3-5, 2021, Session on Firm Financing in Global Markets, Society for the Study of Emerging Markets (SSEM), organized by Sergio Schmukler (World Bank) and Tomas Williams (George Washington University), eSeminar. Those registered at the conference can watch the sessions here until March 1. A video recording of this session will be available after March 1, 2021. 
• Recovery from the Pandemic across the World: Balancing Short-term and Long-term Concerns (en Español), November 11, 2020, eSeminar in English | Watch the video | Presentations: Loayza | Milesi-Ferretti | Parrado |  Covid eSeminar Series.
• Conference on Financial Development and Stability, July 24, 2020, Santiago, Chile, organized with the SBIF, CMF, the World Bank Research & Development Center in Chile, ASBA, and Universidad Adolfo Ibañez. Postponed.
• The Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America, May 19, 2020, eSeminar, organized with the Universidad Adolfo Ibánez, Video (English) and event materials (Press coverage: ADN Radio, Americas Quarterly, Diario Financiero, The Economist, La Tercera, Project Syndicate).

Excerpts (in English with Spanish subtitles)
How severe will the crisis be? (Twitter|Youtube)
Should countries aim for large stimulus packages? (Twitter|Youtube)
Will payment systems be at risk? (Twitter|Youtube)
Should governments try to save firms? (Twitter|Youtube)
Will there be enough international support? (Twitter|Youtube)
Can the crisis be an opportunity for economic reform? (Twitter|Youtube)

• Financial Sector Policies to Salvage Firms Hit by COVID-19, April 29, 2020, eSeminar.
  Video and event materials | World Bank Research and Policy Brief No. 30, April 13, 2020.
• Financiamiento de Empresas Hibernando durante el Coronavirus, April 22, 2020, eSeminar.
  (Financing Firms in Hibernation during the Coronavirus Pandemic), organized with the Universidad Católica de Chile, Video (Español) and events materials, World Bank Research and Policy Brief No. 30, April 13, 2020.
• ASSA Annual Meeting 2020, January 3-5, 2020, San Diego, US. 
  Session on Financial Intermediation in Emerging Economies, organized with the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets (SSEM).
• ASSA Annual Meeting 2019, January 4-6, 2019, Atlanta, US. 

Session on Money, Credit and Corporate Finance in Emerging Markets, organized with the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets (SSEM).
Session on Financial Development, organized with the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets (SSEM).

• LACEA-LAMES 18th Annual Meeting, November 8-10, 2018, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  Session on Bancarization, organized with the Bank for International Settlements and ESPOL University.
• Presentation of the Global Financial Development Report 2017/2018, July 5, 2018, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Sede Presidente Errázuriz, Sala Naranja, Santiago, Chile.
• Seminar on Capital Flows, Equity Issuance Activity, and Corporate Investment, July 4, 2018, Comisión para el Mercado Financiero, Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 1449, Santiago, Chile.
• Finance Conference, June 2018, Universidad Católica de Chile, MBA UC Building, Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 440, Santiago, Chile.