This is a list of 2006 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 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Dec 14 | Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Ayhan Kose
(IMF) | | Dec 7 | Returns to capital in microenterprises:
Evidence from a field experiment              | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | David Mckenzie
(World Bank) |
November 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Nov 30 | Persistent appreciations,
overshooting, and optimal exchange
rate interventions | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Guido Lorenzoni
(MIT & NBER) | | Nov 16 | Openness and Technological
Innovations in Developing Countries:
Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Rita Almeida and
Ana Fernandes
(World Bank) | | Nov 14 | ICT adoption and productivity in
developing countries: new firm level
evidence from Brazil and India | Macro & Growth
Seminar Series | Simon Commander
(EBRD & LBS) |
  October 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Oct 26 | Accommodating Emerging Giants | Macro & Growth
Seminar Series | John Coleman
(Duke Univ) | | Oct 19 | Volatility and Growth in Latin America:
An Episodic Approach | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Ratna Sahay and
Rishi Goyal (IMF) | | Oct 12 | Terrorism and the World Economy | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Alberto Abadie
(Havard & NBER) | | Oct 5 | Do television and radio destroy social capital?
Evidence from Indonesian villages | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Benjamin Olken
(Harvard & NBER)Â Â Â |
 September 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Sept 28 | The economic effects of employment
protection laws | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Carmen Pages
(WB) | | Sept 21 | Development and the Interaction of
Enforcement Institutions | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Jamele Rigolini
(WB) | | Sept 14 | Cleaning up the kitchen sink:
On the consequences of the
Linearity Assumption for
cross-country growth empirics | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Francisco R.
Rodriguez
(Wesleyan) | | Sept 7 | Culture and Public goods: The case
of religion and the voluntary
provision of environmental Quality               | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series         | Ann L. Owen
(Hamilton College) |
  June 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jun 22 | A Theoretical Model of informal
markets with an empirical applicaton
to the software industry | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Alejandro Solis
(NY Univ.) | | Jun 15 | Does Economic Diversification lead to
financial development?
Evidence from Topography | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Rodney Ramcharan
(IMF) |
 May 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | May 18 | Entry Regulation as a Barrier to
Entrepreneurship | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Leora Klapper
(WB) | | May 11 | Theory and Empirics of Real Exchange
rates in Sub-Saharan Africa and other
developing countries | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Ibrahim Elbadawi
(World Bank) |
 April 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Apr 20 | The Modern World: The effect of Democracy,
colonialism and war on economic growth,
1820-2000 | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint seminar | Branko Milanovic
(WB) | | Apr 13 | Gross Worker Flows in the presence of Informal
Labor Markets: The Mexican Experience
1987-2002 | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series    | Mariano Bosch
(LSE) | | Apr 6 | Corporate Governance, Regulation and
Bank Risk Taking | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series        | Ross Levine
(Brown University) |
  March 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Mar 30 | Who Survives? The Impact of Corruption, Competition and Property Rights across Firms | Macro and Growth Seminar Series | Mary Hallward-Driemeier
(World Bank) | | Mar 23 | Output Drops, and the Shocks that Matter | Macro and Growth Bank/Fund Joint seminar | Torbjor Becker and Paolo Maruo
(IMF) | | Mar 9 | Sovereign Debt and the Tragedy of the Commons | Macro and Growth Seminar Series | Manuel Amador (MIT) | | Mar 2 | Comparitive Advantage, Demande for External Finance, and Financial Development | Macro and Growth Seminar Series | Andrei Levchenko (IMF)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â |
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February 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Feb 16 | Common Factors in Latin America's
Business Cycles | Macro and Growth Bank/
Fund Joint Seminar | Luis Catao
(IMF) | | Feb 9 | Democracy and Environmental Quality | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Hossein Farzin
(Univ. of California) | | Feb 2 | Reliving the 50s: The big push, poverty traps,
and takeoffs in Economic Development | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | William Easterly
(WB) |
 January 2006 | Date | Event | Type | Participants | | Jan 26 | Learning by Doing, Learning by Exporting
and Productivity from Colombia | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Ana Margarida
Fernandes
(World Bank) | | Jan 19 | Contracts and Technology Adoption | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Pol Antras
(Harvard University) | | Jan 5 | The Composition of Growth Matters for
Poverty Alleviation          | Macro and Growth
Seminar Series | Norman Loayza and
Claudio Raddatz
(World BAnk)Â Â Â Â Â Â |
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