2003 Macro Brown Bag Seminars and Bank/Fund Joint Seminars

This is a list of 2003 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.

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January	February	March	April	May
June	July	September	October	November

November 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Nov. 20	Financial Reform: What Shakes It? What Shapes It?	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Ashoka Mody Abdul de Guia Abaid (IMF)
Nov. 13	Labor Demand and Trade Reform in Latin America	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Pablo Fajnzylber (World Bank) William F. Maloney (World Bank)
Nov. 6	Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich Countries to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Sebnem Kalemli- Ozcan (Univ. of Houston) L. Alfaro (Harvard Business S chool) V. Volosovych (Univ. of Houston)

October 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Oct. 30	The currency union effect on trade: early evidence from EMU	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Ernesto Stein (IADB) A. Micco and G. Ordonez (IADB)
Oct. 23	When is external debt sustainable?	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Aart Kraay (World Bank) Vikram Nehru (World Bank)
Oct. 16	Measuring Contagion with a Bayesian, Time-Varying Coefficient Mode	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Alessandro Rebucci (IMF) Matteo Ciccarelli (European Central Bank)
Oct. 2	Does Delegation of Fiscal Policy to an Independent Agency Make a Difference?	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Stuti Khemani (World Bank)

September 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Sept. 25	The Impact of SMEs on Growth, Development and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Thorsten Beck (World Bank) Asli Demirguc-Kunt (World Bank) Ross Levine (University of Minnesota)
Sept. 18	Measuring Contagion with a Bayesian, Time-varying Coefficient Model	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Alessandro Rebucci (IMF) Matteo Ciccarelli (European Central Bank)
Sept. 4	Openness, Growth, and Financial Crises	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Aaron Tornell

July 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Jul. 24	The Development Impact of CDF-like Experiences: An Assessment	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Ibrahim Elbadawi (World Bank) John Randa (World Bank)
Jul. 17	Bank Consolidation, Internationalization and Conglomeration: Trends and Implications for Financial Risks	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Gianni de Nicolo (IMF)
Jul. 14	Macroeconomic Policy and Performance in Latin America	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Cesar Calderon (Central Bank of Chile) Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (Central Bank of Chile)

June 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Jun. 23	Comprehensive Wealth and Future Consumption	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Kirk Hamilton (World Bank) Susana Ferreira (UCSD) Jeffrey Vincent (UCSD)
Jun. 19	Dollarization of the Banking System: Good or Bad?	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Alain Ize (IMF) Patrick Honohan (World Bank) Gianni De Nicolo (IMF)
Jun. 12	Regulation and Investment	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Fabio Schiantarelli (Boston College) Alberto Alesina (Harvard Univ) Silvia Ardagna (Wellesley College) Giuseppe Nicoletti (OECD)
Jun. 5	Institutional Reform in Transition: A Case Study of Russia	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Bernie Black (Stanford Law school) Anna Tarassova

May 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
May 29	Inequality, Growth, and Trade Policy	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
May 22	Globalization and Insecurity	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	John McLaren (University of Virginia)
May 15	Debt Intolerance	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Carmen Reinhart (IMF) Ken Rogoff (IMF) Miguel Savastano (IMF)
May 8	Innovation and Development	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Daniel Lederman William Maloney (World Bank)

April 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Apr. 24	Why Ethic Fractionalization? Polarization, Ethnic Conflict, and Growth	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Marta Reynal-Querol (World Bank) José García-Montalvo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Apr. 17	Mini-IMMPA: A Framework for Assessing the Unemployment and Poverty Effects of Fiscal and Labor Market Reforms	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Pierre-Richard Agenor (World Bank)
Apr. 10	Equilibrium and Dependence	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Shanta Devarajan (World Bank) Jean-Paul Azam Steve O’Connell
Apr. 3	Estimating Private Returns to Emerging Market Lending, 1970 - 2000	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Jeromin Zettelmeyer (IMF) Christoph Klingen Beatrice Weder

March 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Mar. 20	Financial Intermediation and Growth: Chinese Style	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Genevieve Boyreau- Debray (World Bank)
Mar. 13	Why Plant-Level Productivity Studies Are Often Misleading, and Alternative Approach to Influence	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	James Tybout (PA State University)
Mar. 6	Education Policies To Revive a Stagnant Economy: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Krishna Kumar (U. of Southern California) Elizabeth Caucutt (U. of Rochester)

February 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Feb. 27	Investment Climate and Firm Performance in Developing Economies	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	David Dollar (World Bank) Mary Hallward-Driemeier Taye Mengistae (World Bank)
Feb. 20	Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Norman Loayza (World Bank) Pablo Fajnzylber (World Bank) César Calderón (Central Bank of Chile)

January 2003
Date	Event	Type	Participants
Jan. 27	Terms of Trade Effects and Cross-Country Differences in Price Levels	Macro and Growth Seminar Series	Doireann Fitzgerald (Harvard)
Jan. 23	Exchange Rates and fundamentals: Evidence from Commodity Economies	Young Economist Recruitment Seminar	Yu-Chin Chen (Harvard)
Jan. 22	Non-Performing Loans, Prospective Bailouts, and Japan's Slowdown	Young Economist Recruitment Seminar	Levon Barsegheyan (Northwestern)
Jan. 16	Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development	Joint Bank/Fund Research Seminar	Dani Rodrik (Harvard) Arvind Subramanian (IMF) Francesco Trebbi Harvard)
Jan. 14	Patient Welfare Implications of Innovation in the U.S. Antidepressant Market	Young Economist Recruitment Seminar	Paris Cleanthous (Yale)

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