This is a list of 2005 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 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Dec 13 | A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the
Aggregate and Firm Level | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Diego Comin
(NY Univ.) | | Dec 8 | The Granular Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Xavier Gabaix
(MIT and NBER) | | Dec 1 | Enforcement of Labor Regulation, Informal
Labor and Firm Performances | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Rita Almeida
(World Bank) |
 November 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Nov 17 | Poverty Traps, Aid and Growth | Macro and Growth
Bank/Fund Joint
seminar | Aart Kraay and
Claudio Raddatz
(WB) | | Nov 10 | Estimating Herd Behavior in Financial Markets:
A Structural Approach | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Marco Cipriani
(GWU) | | Nov 10 | A New Era of International Financial Integration | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Marco Cipriani
(GWU) | | Nov 3 | Accounting for the Effect of Helath on Economic Growth | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | David N. Weil
(Brown Univ.) |
 October 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Oct 20 | A Tale of Two States: Maharashtra and
West Bengal | Macro & Growth
Seminar Series | Amartya Lahiri
(Univ. of British
Colombia) | | Oct 13 | Foreign Banks in Poor Countries: Theory
and Evidence | Macro and Growth
Bank/Fund Joint
seminar | Enrica
Detragiache
(WB) and
Thierry Tressel
(IMF) | | Oct 6Â | What has 100 billion dollars worth of debt relief done
for low-income countries? | Macro and Growth
Seminar | Aart Kraay
(World Bank) |
 September 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Sept 29 | Growth Dynamics: The Myth of Economic Recovery | Macro & Growth
Bank Fund Joint
Seminar | Valerie Cerra
(IMF) and
Sweta C. Saxena
(Univ. of Pittsburgh) |
 June 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | June 23 | The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the
US Current Account                     | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Aart Kraay
(World Bank) | | June 16 | Reaping the benefits from market reforms | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Raphael Bergoeing
(University of Chile) | | June 16 | Employment and Capital Adjustments after Factor
Market Deregulation: Panel Evidence from
Colombian Plants | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Adriana Kugler
(University of
Houston) | | June 9 | The Overhang Hangover | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Romain Ranciere
(CREE & IMF) and
Jean Imbs
(FAME & CARP) |
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May 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | May 26 | The Diffusion of Development             | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Romain Wacziarg
(Stanford University) | | May 19 | The Optimal level of International Reserves
for Emerging market Countries: Formulas
and Applications | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Oliver Jeanne
(IMF) | | May 18 | Openness can be good for Growth: The
role of Policy Complementarities | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Roberto Chang
(Princeton& Rutgers)Â
and Linda Kaltani
(American Univ.
& World Bank) | | May 12 | International Financial Integration through
the Law of one Price | Macro & GrowthÂ
Brown Bag | Neeltje Van Horen
(Univ. of Amsterdam
and World Bank) |
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April 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | April 28 | Inequality, Transfers and Political Activism in
Autocratic Regimes | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag  | Jamele Rigolini
(University of Warwick) | | April 21 | China's (uneven) Progress Against Poverty | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag        | Martin Ravallion
(World Bank) | | April 14 | Where does the market Matter? Stock
Prices and Investment | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Matias Braun
(UCLA) | | April 13 | Evaluating Explanations for Stagnation | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Krishan Kumar
(USC Marshall
School of Business) | | April 7 | Disease and Development | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Simon Johnson
(IMF & MIT) |
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March 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Mar. 31 | Government Finance int he Wake
of Currency Crises                       | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Craig Burnside
(Duke Univ. & NBER) | | Mar. 24 | Effective Labor Regulation and
Microeconomic Flexibility | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Alejandro Micco andÂ
Kevin Cowan
(IADB) | | Mar. 17 | Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from
Hong Kong as Entrepot Trader | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Shang-Jin Wei
(IMF) | | Mar. 10 | The Green Solow Model | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | M. Scott Taylor | Mar. 3 | Institutions & Growth in Transition Economies | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Thorsten Beck
(World Bank) and
Luc Laeven
(World Bank, CPER) |
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February 2005 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Feb. 24 | Income and Democracy                | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Simon Johnson
(MIT & IMF)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â | | Feb. 17 | Adjustment is Much Slower than you think | Macro & Growth
Brown Bag | Eduardo Engle
(Yale) |
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