This is a list of 2004 seminars on macroeconomics and growth organized by the World Bank's Development Research Group. More recent listings, including upcoming events. For previous seminars please click here.   To obtain a copy of any paper listed here, please e-mail us.Â
  December 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Dec. 16 | The Business Environment And Comparative
Advantage In Africa: Evidence From The Investment
Climate Data | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Benn Eifert
(World Bank)Â
Alan Gelb and
Vijaya
Ramachandran
(World Bank) | | Dec. 9 | Growth Effects Of Exchange-Rate Regimes
and Capital-Account Liberalization  | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Assaf Razin
(Cornell Univ)Â
Yona Rubinstein
(Tel-Aviv Univ.Â
& CEPR) | | Dec. 2 | New Evidence On The Development Impact
of Trade Liberalization | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Yvonne M. Tsikata
(World Bank)Â
Yothin Jinjarak
(World Bank) and
Gonzalo Salinas
(World Bank &
Oxford Univ. ) | | Dec. 1 | Democracy, Credibility and Clientelism | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Philip Keefer
(World Bank)
with Razvan Vlaicu
(Northwestern Univ.)Â |
 November 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Nov. 30 | World Market Integration Through The Lens of
Foreign Direct Investors | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Luis Servén
(World Bank)
Norman Loayza
(World Bank) andÂ
Rui Albuquerque
(Univ. Rochester) | | Nov. 18 | What Determines Long-Run Macroeconomics
Stability? Democratic Institutions | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Arvind Subramanian
(IMF)Â
Shanker Satyanath
(NYU) | | Nov. 11 | Institutional Quality And International Trade | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Andrei A. Levchenko
(IMF) |
 October 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Oct. 28 | Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is
the Trend | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Mark Aguiar
(Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston)Â
Gita Gopinath
(Univ.Of Chicago) | | Oct. 21 | The Politics Of Sustaining Growth In The Arab
World: Getting Democracy Right | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Ibrahim Elbadawi
(World Bank) | | Oct. 14 | Trade Liberalization And The Politics of
Financial Development | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Claudio Raddatz
(World Bank) |
 September 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Sep. 16 | When It Rains, It Pours: Procyclical Capital Flows
and Macroeconomic Policies | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Carlos A. Végh
(IMF) |
 July 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jul. 22 | Investment In Influence And Political Alternation:
Evidence From Transition Countries
(Paper Available) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Karla HoffÂ
(World Bank)
Branko Milanovic
(World Bank)Â
Shale Horowitz | | Jul. 15 | Insurance Value Of International Reserves:
An Option Pricing Approach | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Jaewoo Lee
(IMF) |
 June 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jun. 10 | Aid/Debt/Relief | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Peter Henry
(Stanford) | | Jun. 3 | Capital Accumulation and Growth:
A New Look at the Empirical Evidence | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Fabio Schiantarelli
(Boston College) |
 May 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | May 29 | The Rise Of The Regulatory State | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Ed Glaeser
(Harvard)Â
Andrei Schleifer
(Harvard) | | May 20 | Entry of Foreign Firms In China:
Market Potential, Supplier Access,
and Trade Costs | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Mary Amiti
(IMF)Â
Beata Smarzynska
Javorcik
(World Bank) | | May 13 | Infrastructure, Public Education, and
Growth with Congestion Costs | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Pierre-Richard Agenor
(World Bank) |
 April 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Apr. 29 | Financial Crises And Political Crises | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Roberto Chang
(Rutgers University) | | Apr. 22 | Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations
of Economic Differences | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Ken Sokoloff
(UCLA) | | Apr. 20 | Macroeconomic Effects of Pension
Reform In Chile | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
(Central Bank of Chile)
Vittorio Corbo | | Apr. 15 | Debt and Firm Vulnerability | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Jack Glen
(World Bank) | | Apr. 8 | The Regulation of Labor | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Simeon Djankov (World Bank)Â
Juan BoteroÂ
Florencio Lopez-
De-Silanes
(Yale Univ.)
Rafael La Porta Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University) |
 March 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Mar. 25 | On The Effects Of Trade Liberalization | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Romain Wacziarg
(Stanford Graduate
School of Business) | | Mar. 18 | The Quality Effect: Does Financial Liberalization
Improve the Allocation of Capital? | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Kenichi Ueda
(IMF)Â
Abdul Abiad
Nienke Oomes
(IMF) |
 February 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Feb. 26 | Winners and Losers of Tax Competition
In The European Union | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Enrique Mendoza
(Univ. of Maryland) | | Feb. 19 | World Market Integration Through the Lens
of Foreign Direct Investors | Joint Bank/
Fund Research
Seminar | Luis Servén
(World Bank)
Rui Albuquerque
(University of Rochester)Â
Norman Loayza
(World Bank) |
 January 2004 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jan. 22 | The Determinants Of Institutions, Openness,
and Income | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Roberto Rigobón
Dani Rodrik | | Jan. 8 | The Quantity and Quality of Life and the
Evolution of World Inequality | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Rodrigo Soares
(Univ. of MD) |
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