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Finance and Private Sector Research

Finance and Private Sector Seminar Series - sponsored by: World Bank Development Research Group - Finance
Organizer: Bilal Zia (202-458-1433)

The World Bank Finance and Private Sector Seminar Series is an event where leading academic scholars in the finance field are invited to present their recent work. Seminars are held on alternate Tuesdays, 12:30 – 2:00 pm. For details (e.g. venue), email or call Paulina Sintim-Aboagye 202-473-7644.

Date

Event

Type

Presenter

November 24, 2009Ending the World's Financial Plague Before It Strikes Again with Limited Purpose Banking - Jimmy Steward is Dead Finance Brown Bag Seminar Laurence Kotlikoff,
(Boston University)
November 3, 2009Domestic Financial Regulation and External Borrowing Finance Brown Bag Seminar Sergi Lanau (Bank of England)
September 22, 2009The Importance of Holdup in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Antoinette SchoarFinance Brown Bag SeminarRajkamal Iyer,  (MIT)
April 21, 2009Unions, Productivity,and Profitability in Ghanaian ManufacturingFinance Brown Bag SeminarGarth Frazer, University of Toronto
March 10, 2009Under Pressure: Gender Differences in Output Quality and Quantity under Competition and Time ConstraintsFinance Brown Bag SeminarOlga Shurchkov, Wellesley College
February 24, 2009Does access to external finance improve productivity? Evidence from a natural experiment with Jess CornaggiaFinance Brown Bag SeminarAlexander Butler, University of Texas at Dallas
January 27, 2009Credit Market Competition and the Nature of FirmsFinance Brown Bag SeminarNicola Cetorelli,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
November 18, 2008Explaining the China-India Performance Gap with Micro data: Identifying the Binding Constraints with Taye Mengistae, Randall Morck, and Bernard YeungFinance Brown Bag SeminarColin Xu, World Bank
November 11, 2008Government Borrowing and Private Credit: Evidence from Developing Countries with M. Shahe EmranFinance Brown Bag SeminarSubika Farazi, World Bank
November 4, 2008Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking with Stefan NagelFinance Brown Bag SeminarUlrike Malmendier,    UC Berkeley and NBER

October 21, 2008

Stock Market Liberalization and the Decision to Go PublicFinance Brown Bag SeminarRadhakrishnan Gopalan, Washington University, St. Louis

October 7, 2008

Financial education and financial incentives as a means to enhancing banking access:
Experimental evidence from Indonesia.
Finance Brown Bag SeminarBilal Zia, World Bank

September 23, 2008

The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency hannel with Sergei GurievFinance Brown Bag SeminarArt Durnev, McGill University
September 9, 2008

Public Information and Coordination: Evidence from a Credit Registry Expansion     with Andrew Hertzberg and Jose Liberti  

Finance Brown Bag SeminarDaniel Paravisini, Columbia University, 
April 22, 2008

Who Runs? The Importance of Relationships in Bank Runs

Finance Brown Bag SeminarRajkamal Iyer (University of Amsterdam)
March 25, 2008
Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-level DataFinance Brown Bag SeminarAmil Petrin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 11, 2008How Do Financial Frictions Shape the Product Market? Evidence from Mortgage Originations"Finance Brown Bag SeminarJames Vickery (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

January 15, 2008(postponed)

Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?Finance Brown Bag SeminarUlrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley and NBER)
    
Finance Brown Bag Seminar

Past Seminars




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