| Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
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8:00 - 8:45 | | Conference Registration |
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8:45 - 9:00 | | Opening Remarks by Her Royal Highness Princess Maxima of The Netherlands (Introduction by: Juan Jose Daboub, Managing Director, World Bank) |
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9:00 - 10:15 | | Session 1: Measuring Access to Financial Services |
| | | Chair: Asli Demirgüç-Kunt (Senior Research Manager, Development Research Group, World Bank) |
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| | | “Cause and Effect of Financial Access: Cross-country Evidence from the FinScope Surveys” |
| | | by Patrick Honohan (Trinity College Dublin) and Michael King (Trinity College Dublin) Presentation |
| | Discussant: Stijn Claessens (IMF) Discussion |
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| | | “Measuring Household Usage of Financial Services: Does It Matter How or Whom You Ask?” |
| | | by Robert Cull (World Bank) and Kinnon Scott (World Bank) Presentation |
| | | Discussant: Jonathan Morduch (NYU) Discussion |
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10:15 - 10:35 | | Coffee break |
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10:35 -12:35 | | Session 2. Promoting Access to Financial Services |
| | | Chair: Marilou Uy (Sector Director, AFT: Finance and Private Sector Development, World Bank) |
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| | | "Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Borrower Responses to Fingerprinting for Loan Enforcement" |
| | | by Xavier Giné (World Bank), Jessica Goldberg (University of Michigan), and
Dean Yang (University of Michigan) Presentation |
| | | Discussant: Alan de Brauw (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Discussion |
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| | | “Valuing Financial Literacy Training" |
| | | by Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School), Thomas Sampson (Harvard University) and Bilal Zia (World Bank) Presentation |
| | | Discussant: Jeremy Tobacman (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Discussion |
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| | "Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences and Overindebtedness" |
| | by Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth College) and Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School) Presentation |
| | Discussant: Leora Klapper (World Bank) Discussion |
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12:35 - 2:00 | | Lunch break |
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2:00 - 3:20 | | Session 3. Promoting Access to Financial Services II, Regulation and Institutions |
| | | Chair: Consolate Rusagara (Director, FPD Financial Systems, World Bank) |
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| | | “Grassroots Banking: The Effect of Opening Banco Azteca on Economic Activity in Mexico" |
| | | by Miriam Bruhn (World Bank) and Inessa Love (World Bank) Presentation |
| | | Discussant: James Vickery (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Discussion |
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| | | “The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals" |
| | | by Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal (Stockholm School of Economics), Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University) and Sujata Visaria (Boston University) Presentation |
| | Discusssant: Miriam Bruhn (World Bank) Discussion |
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3:20 - 3:40 | | Coffee |
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3:40 - 5:10 | | Panel Discussion: Measuring Household Access to Financial Services. What Have We Done? Where Do We Go Next? |
| | | Chair: Alan Gelb (Director, Development Policy, World Bank) |
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| | | Participants: : Aditya Narain (Deputy Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets, International Monetary Fund), Elizabeth Littlefield (Director, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, World Bank), Nataliya Mylenko (Manager of Data and Analytics, CGAP, World Bank), Jonathan Morduch (Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative, and Professor of Public Policy and Economics, New York University), Lawrence Yanovitch (Senior Program Officer for Financial Services for the Poor, Gates Foundation), and Sergio Navajas (Investment Officer, Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter-American Development Bank) |
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| Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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9:00 - 10:15 | | Session 4. Promoting Access to Financial Services III, Current Topics |
| | | Chair: Elisabeth Rhyne (Managing Director, Center for Financial Inclusion, ACCION International) |
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| | | “Borrowing to Get Ahead, and Behind: The Credit Boom and Bust in Lower-Income Markets” |
| | | by Matt Fellowes (Brookings Institution, Pew Charitable Trusts) and Mia Mabanta (Brookings Institution) Presentation |
| | | Discussant: Brian Bucks (Federal Reserve Board) |
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| | | “Social Capital and Access to Credit: Evidence from Uganda” |
| | | by Anni Heikkila (Helsinski School of Economics), Panu Kalmi (Helsinski School of Economics), and Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen (Uganda Insurers Association)
Presentation |
| | | Discussant: Karen Ellis (Overseas Development Institute) Discussion |
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10:15 - 10:45 | | Coffee break |
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10:45 - 12:30 | | Session 5. Impact of Access to Financial Services on Household Welfare |
| | | Chair: Margaret Miller (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, World Bank) |
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| | | “Are Women Better Loan Officers?” |
| | | by Thorsten Beck (Tilburg University and CEPR), Patrick Behr (Goethe |
| | University), and André Güttler (European Business School) Presentation |
| | | Discussant: Robert Lensink (University of Groningen) Discussion |
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| | | “Financial Services for the Poor: Welfare, Savings and Consumption" |
| | | by Suzanne Duryea (Inter-American Development Bank) and Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) Presentation |
| | | Discussant: Christian Ahlin (Michigan State University) Discussion |
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| | "Bringing Finance to Pakistan’s Poor" |
| | by Tatiana Nenova (World Bank), Cecile Niang (World Bank), and Anjum Ahmad (World Bank) Presentation |
| | Discussant: Anjali Kumar (World Bank) Discussion |
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12:30 | | End of Conference |
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