The Macroeconomics and Growth Team of the World Bank's Development Research group organizes weekly seminars for the presentation and discussion of new work by Bank staff and other researchers each Thursday from 12:30 to 2:00, unless otherwise noted. Visiting economists are welcome. For previous seminars please click here.  For a paper copy not posted here, please email Swati Raychaudhuri
Current seminar offering: Upcoming Seminars Recent Seminars Date | Event | Presenter | Details | | Sept. 6, 2012 | The Trade Comovement Puzzle and the Margins of International Trade | Ana Maria Santacreu (INSEAD) | IMF HQ1 10- 713 | | Sept. 13, 2012 | Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy
Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion | Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC Berkeley) | MC10-100 | | Sept. 20, 2012 | Roads to Prosperity or Bridges to Nowhere? | Sylvain Leduc
(Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) | MC7-100 | | Oct. 11, 2012 | Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth? Using Disasters as Natural Experiments | Nicholas Bloom
(Stanford) | MC7-100
(12:00 - 1:30 pm) | | Oct. 18, 2012 | On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough | Paola Guiliano
(UCLA) | MC7-100
| | Oct. 25, 2012 | Engineering a Paradox of Thrift Recession | Jose Victor Rios Rull (University of Minnsota) | IMF HQ1 10-713
11:30- 1:00 | | Nov. 8, 2012 | Grading Latin American Presidents | Juan Jose Cruces (di Tella) | MC9-100 | | Nov. 15, 2012 | Heterogeneous Mark-Ups and Endogenous Misallocation | Michael Peters
(MIT) | MC C2-135 | | Dec. 6, 2012 | A Traffic-Jam Theory of Recessions | Jennifer La'O
(Chicago- Booth) | MC4-100 | | Dec. 13, 2012 | Germs, Social Networks, and Growth | Laura Veldkamp
(NYU-Stern) | MC C2-131 | | Jan. 9, 2013 | Financial Intermediation, Exchange Rates, and Unconventional Policy in an Open Economy | Roberto Chang
(Rutgers University) | IMF HQ1 10-713 | | Jan. 16, 2013 | Exchange Rates, Aggregate Productivity and the Currency of Invoicing of International Trade | Javier Cravino
(UCLA) | G5-130 | | Jan. 17, 2013 | Anatomy of a Credit Crunch: from Capital to Labor Markets | Roberto Fattal-Jaef
(IMF) | MC6-100 | | Jan. 23, 2013 | Niche Firms, Mass Markets, and Income Across Countries: Accounting for the Impact of Entry Costs | Pendro Bento
(University of Toronto) | G5-130 | | Jan. 24, 2013 | Agricultural Risk, Intermediate Inputs, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences | Kevin Donovan
(Arizona State University) | MC8-100 | | Jan. 30, 2013 | Local Currency Sovereign Risk | Wexin Du
(Harvard University) | G5-130 | | Jan. 31, 2013 | Slow Resolution of uncertainty and Sluggish Recovery | Si Guo
(University of Minnesota) | MC5-100 | | Feb. 5, 2013 | Economic Growth and Trade in Human Capital | Abdulaziz Shifa
(Stockholm University) | MC5-100 | | Feb. 6, 2013 | Optimal Bank Regulation and Fiscal Capacity | Vania Stavrakeva
(Harvard University) | G5-130 | | Feb. 7, 2013 | Which Financial Frictions? Parsing the Evidence from the Financial Crisis of 2007-9 | Hyon Song Shin
(Princeton University) | MC9-100 | | Feb. 8, 2012 | Wealth Heterogeneity, Income Shocks, and International Migration: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia | Samuel Bazzi
(University of California) | MC3-570 | | Feb. 28, 2012 | The Chicago Plan Revisited | Michael Kumhof
(IMF) | MC9-100 | Mar. 07, 2013
| Hot Money Flows, Commodity Price Cycles, and Financial Repression in the U.S. and China: The Consequences of Near Zero U.S. Interest Rates | Ronald McKinnon
(Stanford University | IMF HQ1 10-713 | | Mar. 14, 2013 | Financial Intermediation, International Risk Sharing, and Reserve Currencies | Matteo Maggiori
(NYU- Stern/ Princeton) | MC9-100 | | Mar. 28, 2013 | The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications | Olivier Coibion
(IMF and UT Austin) | Postponed to June 20 | Apr. 3, 2013
(Wednesday) | When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises | Alan Taylor
(University of Virginia) | MC8-100 | | Apr. 11, 2013 | Robust Empirical Inference Built on Non-Orthogonality Conditions | Jan Kiviet
(University of Amsterdam) | MC9-100 | | Apr. 25, 2013 | International Liquidity Rents | Maya Eden (WB) | MC9-100 | May 1, 2013
(Wednesday) | A Theory of Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand as Functions of Market Tightness with Prices as Parameters | Pascal Michaillat (LSE) | IMF HQ1 10 -713 |
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