Development Research Seminar Series in Kuala Lumpur

The Kuala Lumpur Seminar Series is hosted by EAPCE Research Center. The series invites leading researchers in development economics and public policy to present their recent work in an academic-style seminar format.

2022 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Oct 27, 2022	Joseph Paul Kaboski	University of Notre Dame	The Stable Transformation Path

Previous Seasons

2022 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 13, 2022	Angella Faith Montfaucon	World Bank	The Impacts of Lockdown Policies on International Trade in the Philippines
Feb 17, 2022	César Sosa-Padilla	University of Notre Dame	Does It Matter How Central Banks Accumulate Reserves? Evidence from Sovereign Spreads
Mar 3, 2022	Illenin O. Kondo	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Borrowing in the Shadow of China
Mar 17, 2022	Seonghoon Kim	Singapore Management University	Do COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Stimulate the Economy? Evidence from Card Transaction Data in South Korea
April 21, 2022	Thanyaporn Chankrajang	Chulalongkorn University	Trade and Temples: Conditional Impact of Globalisation on Rural Development in Siam from 1870 to 1914 -- The Role of Local Canal Infrastructure
May 5, 2022	Dany Jaimovich	University of Talca	Ethnic Diversity and Forest Commons

2021 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Sept 9, 2021	Alessandro Barattieri	University of Québec Montréal (UQAM)	Self-Harming Trade Policy? Protectionism and Production Networks
Sept 30, 2021	Amanina Abdur Rahman and Alyssa Farha Jasmin	World Bank	The Vulnerability of Jobs to COVID-19: The Case of Malaysia
Oct 7, 2021	Xuan Li	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Spillover Demoralization of Workplace Unfairness: Evidence from Chinese Schools
Oct 21, 2021	Yatang Lin	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Expanding Footprints: The Impact of Passenger Transportation on Corporate Locations
Oct 28, 2021	Pablo Ottonello	University of Michigan	Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk
Nov 11, 2021	Diana Conteras Suarez	University of Melbourne	The Consequences of Child Marriage in Indonesia
Nov 18, 2021	Devaki Ghose	World Bank	Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes
Nov 25, 2021	Yogita Shamdasani	National University of Singapore	Climate Change and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from Six Decades of the Indian Census
Dec 2, 2021	Agustin Samano	World Bank	International Reserves and Central Bank Independence

2021 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 7, 2021	Titan Alon	University of California San Diego	The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
Jan 14, 2021	Kei-Mu Yi	University of Houston	Trade Integration, Global Value Chains, and Capital Accumulation
Jan 21, 2021	Shafaat Yar Khan	World Bank	How Does Trade Respond to Anticipated Tariff Changes? Evidence from NAFTA
Feb 4, 2021	Kosali Simon	Indiana University	Determinants of Disparities in Covid-19 Job Losses
Feb 18, 2021	Teresa Molina	University of Hawaii	Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
Feb 25, 2021	Ernest Liu	Princeton University	International Friends and Enemies
Mar 4, 2021	Amanina Abdur Rahman, Achim Schmillen	World Bank	From Farms to Factories and Firms: Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity Growth in Malaysia
Mar 18, 2021	Yongsung Chang	Seoul National University	Equilibrium Tax Rates under Ex-ante Heterogeneity and Income-Dependent Voting
Mar 25, 2021	Gerton Rongen and Peter Lanjouw	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Trends in Malaysian poverty and income dynamics: do regional inequalities trump ethnic disparities?
Mar 30, 2021	Natasha Kang	University of British Columbia	Modeling Long Cycles
Mar 31, 2021	Rasim Mutlu	University of Lausanne	Macroprudential vs. Monetary Policies for Dollarized Economies
Apr 1, 2021	Ichiro Sugimoto	SOKA University	Living Standards of Chinese Opium Smokers in Colonial Singapore
Apr 1, 2021	Amina Enkhbold	University of Toronto	Monetary Policy Transmission, Bank Market Power, and Wholesale Funding Reliance
Apr 8, 2021	David McKenzie	World Bank	Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessing the Evidence for “Training Doesn’t Work”
Apr 8, 2021	Agustin Samano	University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	International Reserves and Central Bank Independence
Apr 14, 2021	Yunsang Kim	Georgetown University	Distributional Effects of Exchange Rate Stabilization in Emerging Markets
Apr 22, 2021	Christopher Alexander Hoy	World Bank	Improving tax compliance without raising revenue: Evidence from population wide randomized controlled trials in Papua New Guinea
May 6, 2021	Woan Foong Wong	University of Oregon	Export Markets and Long-Run Industry Adjustment: State, Private, and Foreign Firms in Vietnam
May 27, 2021	Carlos Vegh	Johns Hopkins University	Fiscal Cyclicality and Market Incompleteness
Jun 10, 2021	Leora Klapper	World Bank	Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts
Jun 24, 2021	Angella Faith Montfaucon	World Bank	Do Non-Tariff Measures Affect Exporters' Margins-Evidence from Indonesia

2020 Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 9, 2020	Martin Ravallion Co-author: Michael Lokshin	Georgetown University and University of Malaya	A Market for Work Permits: How to Make Migrants and Refugees More Popular in Host Countries ∞
Jan 16, 2020	Gabriele Ciminelli Co-author(s): Davide Furceri, Jun Ge, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Chris Papageorgiou	Asia School of Business	The Political Costs of Reforms: Fear or Reality?
Feb 6, 2020	Kian Howe Ong Co-author: Rasyad Parinduri	University of Nottingham Ningbo China	The Effects of Mediums of Instruction on Educational- and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Malaysia
Feb 20, 2020	Markus Brueckner Co-author: Rabah Arezki	Australian National University	Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A New Perspective on the Resource Curse∞
Feb 27, 2020	David Cuberes and Marc Teignier	Clark University and University of Barcelona	The Aggregate Gains of Eliminating Gender and Ethnic Gaps in the Malaysian Labor Market
Apr 30, 2020	Jared Barton	University of Malaya and California State University Channel Islands	The U.S. – China Trade War: Who Was It Good For?
Jun 4, 2020	Filippo di Mauro	National University of Singapore	Assessing Small Store Performance in Malaysia
Jun 11, 2020	Nina Weimann-Sandig	Dresden University	Malaysia and its Transition Process Towards More Gender Equality at the Labor Market – Results from a Qualitative Study
Jul 16, 2020	Mahama Samir Bandaogo	World Bank	Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Long-Term Growth Scenarios for Thailand
Aug 6, 2020	Guillermo Vuletin	World Bank	Can automatic government spending be procyclical?
Sept 10, 2020	Alistair Dieppe, Gene Kindberg-Hanlon	European Central Bank and World Bank	Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies
Sept 24, 2020	Elizaveta Perova	World Bank	In the light of what they know: how do local leaders make targeting decisions?
Oct 8, 2020	Alvaro Pedraza & Claudia Ruiz	World Bank	Banking Sector Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis
Oct 15, 2020	Gonzalo Salinas	IMF	Proximity and Horizontal Policies: The Backbone of Export Diversification and Complexity
Nov 5, 2020	Tobias Pfutze	World Bank	The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria
Nov 11, 2020	Norman Loayza	World Bank	Recovery from the Pandemic across the World: Balancing Short-term and Long-term Concern
Nov 26, 2020	Yu Cao	World Bank	Financial Constraints, Innovation Quality, and Growth
Dec 3, 2020	Tristan Reed	World Bank	Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Dec 10, 2020	Steven Pennings & Arthur Mendes	World Bank	One Rule Fits All? Heterogeneous Fiscal Rules for Commodity Exporters When Price Shocks Can Be Persistent: Theory and Evidence
Dec 17, 2020	Daniel Gerszon Mahler	World Bank	Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

2019 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Sep 12, 2019	Marcela V. Parada Contzen	Universidad de Concepcion, Chile	Risk Attitudes and the Gender Pay Gap in a Developing Country
Oct 3, 2019	Donghyun Park, Shu Tian Co-Author: Marie Anne Cagas	Asian Development Bank	Bond Market Development and Bank Risk-Taking: Evidence from Developing Markets
Oct 17, 2019	Özer Karagedikli Co-authors: Severin Bernhard, Kenneth N Kuttner	The SEACEN Centre	Rationality and Expectation Formation at Central Banks
Oct 31, 2019	Zia Sadique	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	The Challenges of Economic Evaluation Alongside Large Clinical Trials: The UK Experience∞
Nov 21, 2019	Vengadeshvaran Sarma	University of Nottingham Malaysia	Does Maternal Migration affect Spousal Labour Supply? Evidence from Sri Lanka
Nov 28, 2019	Vijayendra Rao Co-author: Paromita Sanyal	World Bank	Oral Democracy: An Analysis of Direct Democracy in India ∞
Dec 10, 2019	Davide S. Mare	World Bank	Global Financial Development Report 2019 / 2020: Bank Regulation and Supervision a Decade after the Global Financial Crisis

2019 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 8, 2019	Dimitrije Ruzic	INSEAD	Firms and Collective Reputation: the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal as a Case Study
Jan 24, 2019	Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle	Georgetown University and University of Malaya; Center for Global Development and University of Malaya	Informational Constraints on Antipoverty Policies: Evidence from Africa∞
Feb 14, 2019	Jong-Wha Lee. Co-Author: Warwick J. McKibbin	Korea University	Korean Unification: Economic Adjustments Under German Assumptions
Feb 21, 2019	Woong Yong Park Co-Authors: Saroj Battharai and Arpita Chatterjee	Seoul National University	Global Spillover Effects of US Uncertainty∞
Mar 7, 2019	Hyeok Jeong	Seoul National University	Productivity Growth and Efficiency Dynamics of Korea’s Structural Transformation
Mar 14, 2019	Klaus F. Zimmermann	Maastricht University	Economic Preferences Across Generations: Identifying Family Clusters from a Large-scale Experiment∞
Mar 21, 2019	Yoonsoo Lee	Sogang University	Long-term Shifts in Korean Manufacturing and Plant-level Dynamics
Apr 18, 2019	Adonis Antoniades	National University of Singapore	The Credit Concentration Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission
May 2, 2019	Quy-Toan Do Co-authors: Mohamed Abdel Jelil, Kartika Bhatia, Anne Brockmeyer, and Clement Joubert	World Bank	Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Recruits
May 23, 2019	Davin Chor Co-authors: Filipe R. Campante, Bingjing Li	Dartmouth College and National University of Singapore	The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown∞
May 30, 2019	Derek Kok	Sunway University	Stunting in Malaysia: Costs, Causes and Courses for Action
Jul 11, 2019	Horng Chern Wong	University of Warwick	Wage Determination Across Firms

2018 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
13-Sep-18	Pablo Egaña del Sol	Asia School of Business	The Role of Emotional Regulation on Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from Neurophysiological Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
20-Sep-18	Chaoran Chen	National University of Singapore	Capital-Skill Complementarity, Sectoral Labor Productivity, and Structural Transformation∞
27-Sep-18	Donghyun Park and Shu Tian	Asian Development Bank	The Price of Greenness: Some Evidence from Green Bond Markets
11-Oct-18	Laurence Todd and Wing Leong Teo	Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs; University of Nottingham Malaysia	Payment Card Reform Framework (PCRF): A Policy Evaluation Study
16-Oct-18	Sergio Schmukler	World Bank	Corporate Financing in East Asia: The Long Road Since the 1997-98 Financial Crisis
18-Oct-18	Otaviano Canuto	World Bank	Globalization and Technological Transformation
7-Nov-18	Michael Toman	World Bank	The Conceptual Basis and Operational Implications of “Green Growth”
8-Nov-18	Zaki Wahhaj	Keynes College, University of Kent	Marriage, Work and Migration: The Role of Infrastructure Development and Gender Norms∞
14-Nov-18	Ayhan Kose and Jongrim Ha	World Bank	Low Inflation in Emerging Economies: Miracle or Mirage?
22-Nov-18	Xiaobo Zhang	Peking University	Community Networks and the Growth of Private Enterprise in China∞
6-Dec-18	Sharmila Devadas	World Bank	Assessing the Effect of Public Capital on Growth: An Extension of the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model
13-Dec-18	John Giles	World Bank	Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China’s Rural Migrants?∞
20-Dec-18	Fabian Mendez Ramos	World Bank	Uncertainty in Future Poverty and Inequality: Some Implications of Growth and Natural Resources

2018 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 22, 2018	Ravi Kanbur	Cornell University	Addressing the Anxieties of Our Time: The Work of the International Panel on Social Progress
Jan 25, 2018	Thorsten Beck	Cass Business School	Credit Growth and Macro Prudential Policies: Preliminary Evidence on the Firm-level∞
Feb 8, 2018	Shanta Devarajan	World Bank	Market Failures, Government Failures and the Welfare of Poor People
Mar 1, 2018	Namrata Chindarkar and Yvonne Jie Chen. Co-Author: Shilpa Sathe	National University of Singapore	Impact of Farm Electricity Supply Management on Farm Households-Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
Mar 8, 2018	Maisy Wong	The University of Pennsylvania	Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building ∞
Mar 29, 2018	David Bishai	Johns Hopkins School of Public Health	Disparities in Child Mortality Among Religious Minorities in the District of India
Apr 5, 2018	Gaurav Datt	Monash Business School	Is Emigration of Nepalese Workers Contributing to Better Schooling Outcomes for Children in Nepal? ∞
Apr 19, 2018	Sui-Jade Ho	Bank Negara Malaysia	Returns to Scale, Productivity Measurement and Trends in U.S. Manufacturing Misallocation
Apr 26, 2018	Ghazala Mansuri	World Bank	Decentralization and Redistribution: Irrigation Reform in Pakistan’s Indus Basin
Jun 7, 2018	Vijayendra Rao	World Bank	Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation: Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha∞

2017 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Sep 7, 2017	Thanyaporn Chankrajang	Chulalongkorn University	The Unequal Effects of the Great Depression on Rural Households in Siam, 1930-1934: Crisis Transmission through International Rice Trade
Sep 14, 2017	Markus Brueckner	Australian National University	Inequality and GDP Per Capita: The Role of Initial Income∞
Sep 21, 2017	Sergio Schmukler	World Bank	Market Access, Corporate Borrowing, and Debt Maturity
Sep 28, 2017	Trung Hoang	Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences	The Long-run and Gender-equalizing Impacts of Schooling Policies: Evidence from the First Indochina War
Oct 3, 2017	Mary Hallward-Driemeier, William F. Maloney	World Bank	Technological Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
Oct 26, 2017	Liang Choon Wang	Monash University	Non-Financial Incentives, Selectivity and Performance of Volunteers: Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment∞
Nov 23, 2017	Donghyun Park, Shu Tian	Asian Development Bank	Do Local Currency Bond Markets Enhance Financial Stability? Some Empirical Evidence
Nov 28, 2017	Young Eun Kim	World Bank	Productivity and its Determinants: Innovation, Education, Efficiency, Infrastructure, and Institutions
Nov 30, 2017	Phornchanok Cumperayot	Chulalongkorn University	Linking Large Currency Swings to Fundamentals' Shocks∞

2017 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Jan 19, 2017	Vijayendra Rao	World Bank	The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India
Jan 26, 2017	Lin Ma	National University of Singapore	Pirates of Somalia: Crime and Deterrence on the High Seas
Feb 23, 2017	Filippo di Mauro	European Central Bank	Firms Level Data Analysis Reconsidered: A Novel Data Basis and a Few Applications for Policy and Research
Mar 14, 2017	Roberto Chang	Rutgers University	Incomplete Risk Sharing with Complete Markets
Mar 23, 2017	Jean N. Arlet	World Bank	Electricity Tariffs, Power Outages and Firm Performance: A Comparative Analysis
Mar 30, 2017	Edgar Chavez	World Bank	Credit Information and Firms’ Access to Finance: Evidence from a New Credit-Constrained Status Measure
April 13, 2017	Tian Huey Teh	Bank Negara Malaysia	Measuring Bank Risk-taking Behaviour: The Risk-taking Channel of Monetary Policy in Malaysia
April 20, 2017	Witsanu Attavanich	Kasetsart University	Impact of the First-Time Car Buyer Program on the Environmental Cost of Air Pollution in Bangkok
May 11, 2017	Joel D. Moore	Monash University	Going Green in Thailand: Upgrading in Global Organic Value Chains
May 18, 2017	Sergio Schmukler	World Bank	International Financial Integration of East Asia and Pacific
Jun 1, 2017	Steven Michael Pennings	World Bank	Shrinking Dictators: How Much Economic Growth Can We Attribute to National Leaders?
Jun 15, 2017	Woan Foong Wong	University of Oregon	The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade
Aug 21, 2017	Otaviano Canuto	World Bank	Middle Income (or Non-Convergence) Traps

2016 Second Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Sep 1, 2016	Boon Hwa Tng	Bank Negara Malaysia	The Transmission of Financial Stress and Its Interactions with Monetary Policy Responses in the ASEAN-5 Economies
Sep 13, 2016	Philip O'Keefe	World Bank	Live Long and Prosper: Aging in East Asia and Pacific
Sep 20, 2016	Susmita Dasgupta	World Bank	Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests
Sep 28, 2016	Caglar Ozden	World Bank	The Global Migration of Talent and Tax Incentives: Evidence from Malaysia's Returning Expert Program
Oct 13, 2016	Hwok-Aun Lee, Muhammed Abdul Khalid	University of Malaya, Khazanah Research Institute	Is Inequality in Malaysia Really Going Down? A Puzzle Explored
Oct 27, 2016	Norman Loayza	World Bank	Informality in the Process of Development and Growth
Nov 3, 2016	Luis Servén	World Bank	Openness, Specialization, and the External Vulnerability of Developing Countries
Nov 17, 2016	Shirly Wong Siew Ling	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak	Measuring Business Cycle Fluctuations: An Alternative Precursor to Economic Crises
Nov 24, 2016	Mohd Yusof Saari	Universiti Putra Malaysia	Sources of Income Growth and Inequality across Ethnic Groups in Malaysia, 1970-2000
Dec 1, 2016	Julien Labonne	University of Oxford	Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying
Dec 8, 2016	Yong Wang	Peking University	International Trade and Non-Convergence Trap for Middle-Income Countries

2016 First Half Season

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
Feb 4, 2016	Martin Kanz	World Bank	Moral Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card
Feb 18, 2016	Hai-Anh H. Dang	World Bank	Welfare Dynamics Based on Synthetic Panels Using Objective and Subjective Data: The Case of the Arab World
Mar 3, 2016	John Giles	World Bank	Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
Mar 17, 2016	Saumik Paul	University of Nottingham	Structural Transformation, Growth Incidence and Inequality
Mar 30, 2016	Govinda Timilsina	World Bank	The Benefits of Regional Electricity Cooperation and Trade: Lessons from South Asia
Apr 7, 2016	Norman Loayza	World Bank	The Local Impact of Mining on Poverty and Inequality
Apr 14, 2016	Dean Jolliffe	World Bank	A Global Headcount of Extreme Poverty: A Review of Data, Assumptions and Methods used by the World Bank to Count Poor People
June 2, 2016	Michael Woolcock	World Bank	Using Cases and Case Studies in Development: Causal Inference, Extrapolation, Diagnostics
Jun 23, 2016	Emily Beam	National University of Singapore	Fertility Choices and Inter-Ethnic Resource Competition in Malaysia
Jun 30, 2016	Hiau Looi Kee	World Bank	Trade Frauds, Trade Elasticities and Non-Tariff Measures
July 28, 2016	Steven Michael Pennings	World Bank	The Seasonality of Conflict

Note: ∞ World Bank – University of Malaya Seminar Series. These joint seminars are hosted alternately by the World Bank and the University of Malaya.

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