Past Webinars

April 24, 2023

Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks 

Orkun Saka, Associate Professor of Economics at the City, University of London

Banks, Misallocation, and Structural Transformation: Evidence from India

Marshall Mo, PhD Student at Stanford University

May 8, 2023

Education and Savings for Retirement: Evidence from Pension Portfolios in Turkey

Yasar Ersan, PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan

Government Banks and Interventions in Credit Markets

Felipe Netto, Research Economist at the Bank of England

June 5, 2023

September 26, 2022

Technology Adoption within Groups: Evidence from Mobile Banking in Ghana

Emma Riley, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Washington

Banks' physical footprint and financial technology adoption

Bernardo Ricca , Assistant Professor at the Insper Institute of Education and Research

October 10, 2022

Does the composition of public sector financing affect the size of crowding out? Evidence from Mexico

Isha Agarwal, Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia 

Pricing conflict risk: Evidence from sovereign bonds

Jonah Rexer, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University 

October 24, 2022

Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program

Nishant Vats, Doctoral Student at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

A bad bunch: Asset value under-reporting in the Mumbai real estate market

Vimal Balasubramanian, Senior Lecturer in Finance for the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London

November 14, 2022

Consumer surplus with incomplete markets: Applications to savings and microfinance

John Loeser, Economist in Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) at the World Bank

November 28, 2022

Loan repayment flexibility and firm profits: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Miri Stryjan, Assistant Professor in Economics at Aalto University

Picking lemons? Algorithm-aided human decisions in selection markets: Evidence from field experiments on insurance agents

Xing Liu, PhD student in Finance at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business

December 10, 2022

March 14, 2022

Worth your weight: experimental evidence on the benefits of obesity in low-income countries

Elisa Macchi, Assistant Professor in Economics at Brown University

March 28, 2022

Information Frictions in Mortgage Refinancing

Raimundo Undurraga, Assistant Professor at University of Chile

April 11, 2022

First Annual CEPR WEFIDEV Workshop in London

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April 25, 2022

Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries

Kristina Manysheva, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University

May 9, 2022

Barriers to Global Capital Allocation

Bruno Pellegrino, Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Maryland

The Anatomy of Index Rebalancings: Evidence from Transaction Data

Tomas Williams, Assistant Professor of International Finance at George Washington University

May 23, 2022

Inventory Decisions Under Political Violence

Diogo Mendes, Assistant Professor of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics

Can road access spur rural entrepreneurship?

Lakshmi Naaraayanan, Assistant Professor of Finance at London Business School

June 13, 2022

September 13, 2021

Improving State Capacity to Target Extreme Poverty

Viola Asri, Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Konstanz

The Role of Mobile Banking amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Ghana

Emma Riley, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Washington

September 27, 2021

The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil

 Julia Fonseca, Assistant Professor of Finance and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

October 11, 2021

The Financial Inclusion Legacy of Basic Income Program

Diego Vera Cossio, Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank

The role of restructuring in bank M&As: evidence from branch-level data

 Lucas Mariani, Policy Associate at Economic Research Southern Africa and Research Fellow at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

October 25, 2021

Do Multiple Elected Representatives Add Value?

Nishant Vats, Doctoral Student at The University of Chicago Booth School of Businesson

Behavioral Nudges and Credit Repayment

 Nicolas de Roux, Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes

November 8, 2021

Risk pooling and precautionary savings in village economies

Aditya Shrinivas, Assistant Professor in Economics at Indian Institute of Management

Access to Finance and Women’s Employment

Vaishnavi Surendra, Postdoctoral Researcher at Precision Development

November 22, 2021

Bank Deposit Franchise, Interest Rate Risk, and Default Risk

Nirupama Kulkarni, Research Director at The Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning

Why are firms slow to adopt profitable business practices?

Waldo Ojeda, Assistant Professor at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY

December 13, 2021

March 9, 2021

Price Comparison Tools In Consumer Credit Markets

Sheisha Kulkarni, Assistant Professor of Finance at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia

Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behaviour: Evidence from Colombia

Nicola Limodio, Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi University

March 23, 2021

Firm Effects of Bank Privatization

 Krisztina Orbán, Assistant Professor of Economics at Monash University

When Transparency Fails: Financial Incentives for Local Banking Agents in Indonesia

 Erika Deserranno, Associate Professor in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

April 6, 2021

Financial reward schemes in microfinance

Miri Stryjan, Assistant Professor in Economics at Aalto University

Hidden Non-Performing Loans in China

Tianyue Ruan, Assistant Professor of Finance at NUS Business School at the National University of Singapore.

April 20, 2021

How Costly Are Cultural Biases?

Francesco D'Acunto, Associate Professor of Finance Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

May 4, 2021

Epidemics, Infrastructural Disparities and FinTech Adoption

Orkun Saka, Associate Professor of Economics at the City, University of London

Production Synergies and Cost Shocks: Hydropower Generation in Colombia

Michele Fioretti, Assistant Professor in the ​Department of Economics at Sciences Po

May 18, 2021

The effect of an income shock on subnational debt

Mariela Dal Borgo, Research Economist in the Directorate General of Financial Stability at Banco de México

Fintech Lending and Sales Manipulation

Kumar Rishabh, Assistant Professor of Economics at The University of Massachusetts Boston

June 1, 2021

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

Michela Giorcelli, ​​Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California - Los Angeles 

Investing with the Government

Emanuele Colonnelli, Associate Professor of Finance at The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

June 15, 2021

September 14, 2020

Resisting social pressure in the household using mobile money

Emma Riley, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Washington

Access to Banks and Household Resilience

Kim Fe Cramer, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics Finance Department

September 28, 2020

Institutional Factors of Credit Allocation: Examining the Role of Judicial Capacity and Bankruptcy Reforms

 Manaswini Rao ,  Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Economics at University of California San Diego.

October 12, 2020

The Moneylender as Middleman: Formal Credit Supply and Informal Loans in Rural India

Vaishnavi Surendra, Postdoctoral Researcher at Precision Development

The effects of information sharing on moral hazard in credit markets

Lisa Spantig, Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics at RWTH Aachen University

October 26, 2020

Rural Banks Reduce Poverty

Giorgia Barboni, Assistant Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School

Towards a Cashless Economy? Evidence from the Elasticity of Cash Deposits of Mexican Firms

Sean Higgins, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

November 9, 2020

Conflict Reduces Investment: Evidence from the Demand for Agricultural Credit in Colombia

Nicolás de Roux, Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes

Credit Enforcement and Inflation Inequality

Apoorv Gupta, Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College

November  23, 2020

Microequity and Mutuality: Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment for Gig Workers

Muhammad Meki, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Oxford Department of International Development, and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford

December 14, 2020