This is a list of 2002 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 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Dec. 19 | Technology, Growth and Resource Abundance | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | William Maloney
(World Bank) | | Dec. 12 | A Model of TFP | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Ricardo Lagos
(NYU) | | Dec. 5 | Capital Controls, Managed Exchange Rates,
and Vulnerability | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Roberto Rigobon
(MIT)Â
Sebastian Edwards
(UCLA & NBER) |
 November 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Nov. 21 | A Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements:
A Reinterpretation | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | Carmen Reinhart
(IMF)Â
Kenneth Rogoff
(IMF) | | Nov. 4 | Bubbles and Capital Flows | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Jaume Ventura
(MITÂ & Pompeu
Fabra University) |
 October 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Oct. 31 | The Economics of Public Infrastructure Franchising | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Eduardo Engel
(Yale)Â
R. FischerÂ
A. Galetovic | | Oct. 24 | Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Bad Politicians | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Rafael Di Tella
(Harvard Business
School)
Ernest Dal Bo
Pedro Dal Bo | | Oct. 17 | Foreign Bank Entry and Access to Credit:
Lessons from Developing Countries | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | Soledad Martinez-
Peria
(World Bank)
George Clark
Robert Cull | | Oct. 15 | Corruption, Trade Liberalization, and Policy Formation: Theory and Evidence | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Richard Damania (University of Adelaide)
Per G. FredrikssonÂ
John A. List |
 September 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Sept. 26 | Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Bad Politicians
(click here for abstract; click here for paper) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Rafael di Tella
(HBS)
Ernesto Dal Bo
Pedro Dal Bo | | Sept. 19 | Macroeconomic Volatility in Developing Countries | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | Eswar Prasad
M. Ayhan Kose
Marco Terrones
(IMF) | | Sept. 12 | Federal Politics and Budget Deficits: Evidence from the States of India
(Paper available: click here) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Stuti Khemani
(World Bank)Â Â | | Sep. 5 | Electoral Rules As Constraints on CorruptionÂ
(Paper available:click here) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Jana Kunicova (Yale)
Susan Rose-Ackerman  |
 July 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jul. 18 | External Debt and Growth | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | Catherine Pattillo
Hélène Poirson
Luca Ricci | | Jul. 11 | Federal Politics and Budget Deficits:
Evidence from the States of India | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Stuti Khemani
(World Bank) |
 June 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jun. 27 | Endogenous Political Institutions | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Alberto Alesina
(Harvard University) | | Jun. 20 | Aid, Policy. and Growth in Post-Conflict Economies
and Military Expenditures: Threats, Aid,
and Arms Races | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | Paul Collier
(World Bank)Â
Anke Hoeffler
(Oxford University) | | Jun. 13 | On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Francesco Caselli
(Harvard University)Â
J. Coleman
(Duke University) |
 May 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | May 30-31 | Financial Globalization Conference
(click here for conference website) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Â | | May 23 | Option Pricing, Currency Risk, and Political Risk | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Enrico Perotti
(Universiteit van
Amsterdam) | | May 16 | Budget Support versus Project Aid in Poverty
Reduction Programs | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | Tito CordellaÂ
Giovanni
Dell’ariccia | | May 14 | The Measurement of Polarization | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Joan Esteban(Pompeu Fabra U.)
Debraj Ray Jean-Yves Duclos | | May 9 | Institutions, Trade, and Growth | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | David Dollar (World Bank)Aart Kraay | | May 2 | Does Sequencing Matter? Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunication Reforms
(video available on BSPAN) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Scott Wallsten
(World Bank)Â |
 April 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Apr. 18 | Bureaucracies Versus Markets In Foreign Assistance | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | William
Easterly
(International
Institute
of Economics) | | Apr. 11 | Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in
Post-Communist Societies: Coordination Failures
and Conflicts of Interest
(video available on BSPAN) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Karla Hoff
(World Bank)Â | | Apr. 4 | Geography, Suppliers Access, Market Potential
and Manufacturing Productivity In Developing Countries  Â
(video available on BSPAN) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | I. Elbadawi
T. Mengistae
T. Temesgen
A. Zeufack
(World Bank) | | Apr. 2 | North-South and South-South Trade-Related R&D Spillovers: An Industrial Level Analysis | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Maurice Schiff
(World Bank) |
 March 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Mar. 28 | Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth
(paper available: click here;Â
video forthcoming on BSPAN) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Oded Galor
(Hebrew U.) | | Mar. 21 | Short-Term Debt And Crises | Joint Bank/Fund
Research Seminar | A. Spilimbergo
E. Detragiache
(IMF) | | Mar 14 | Public Spending And Outcomes: Does Governance
Matter?
(paper available: click here) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Vinaya
Swaroop
(World Bank) | | Mar. 7Â | Child Labor: The Role Of Income Variability
and Access to Credit In A Cross Section Of CountriesÂ
(paper available: click here;
video available on BSPAN) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Roberta GattiÂ
(World Bank)Â |
 February 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Feb. 21 | Debt as Sweat: Labor, Financial Crises, and the
Globalization of Capital
(video available on BSPAN) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Ishac Diwan
(WBIEP) | | Feb. 19 | Social Capital and Group BankingÂ
(paper available) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Dean Karlan | | Feb. 7 | On the Causes and Consequences of Currency Unions | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Silvana Tenreyro
(Harvard) | | Feb. 1 | Why are Rates of Inflation So Low after Large Contractionary Devaluations? | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Ariel Burstein (Northwestern U.)  |
 January 2002 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jan. 24 | Access to Capital in Rural Thailand:
An Estimated Model of Formal vs. Informal Credit
(paper available) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Xavier Gine
(U. of Chicago
and Yale) | | Jan. 17 | Economic Dislocation, Violence, and Human
(In)Security: The Case of Sierra Leone | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Earl Conteh-Morgan | | Jan. 10 | The Varieties of the Rentier Experience:
How Natural Resource Endowments and Social
Institutions Affect Economic GrowthÂ
(paper available;video available on BSPAN) | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | J. Isham
(Middlebury College)
L. Pritchett
(Kennedy School
of Government)
M. Woolcock
(World Bank) | | Jan. 3 | From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development
(video available on BSPAN)
 | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Omer Moav (Hebrew University) |
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