Past Webinars
Fall 2022
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
The Environmental Cost of Economic Growth
Kim Fe Cramer, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics Finance Department
Can financial technology improve public service delivery and integrate beneficiaries into the formal financial system?
Karla Hernandez, PhD Candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 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
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
Research plan: The Impact of Mobile Money Adoption on Attitudes Towards Finance
Mikael Paaso, Assistant Professor in Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Consumer Demand for Digital Money
Cameron Peng, Assistant Professor of Finance at The London School of Economics and Political Science
Fall 2021
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
TBD
Orkun Saka, Associate Professor of Economics at the City, University of London
Memory, Beliefs and Trading
Cameron Peng, Assistant Professor of Finance at The London School of Economics and Political Science
Spring 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
Fragility and Resilience in the International Syndicated Loan Network
Giulia Lotti, Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank
What Explains the Geographic Variation in Investment? A Tale of Colonial Hangover
Shohini Kundu, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California - Los Angeles
Fall 2020
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
Ownership Changes, Management and Efficiency in Rwanda’s Coffee Industry
Ameet Morjaria , Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University