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.
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 |
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 |
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Seonghoon Kim |
Singapore Management University |
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April 21, 2022 |
Thanyaporn Chankrajang |
Chulalongkorn University |
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May 5, 2022 |
Dany Jaimovich |
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 |
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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 |
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Nov 11, 2021 |
Diana Conteras Suarez |
University of Melbourne |
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Devaki Ghose |
World Bank |
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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 |
2021 First Half Season
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Paper |
Jan 7, 2021 |
Titan Alon |
University of California San Diego |
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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 |
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Feb 18, 2021 |
Teresa Molina |
University of Hawaii |
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Feb 25, 2021 |
Ernest Liu |
Princeton University |
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Mar 4, 2021 |
Amanina Abdur Rahman, Achim Schmillen |
World Bank |
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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 |
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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 |
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Apr 8, 2021 |
Agustin Samano |
University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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Apr 14, 2021 |
Yunsang Kim |
Georgetown University |
Distributional Effects of Exchange Rate Stabilization in Emerging Markets |
Apr 22, 2021 |
Christopher Alexander Hoy |
World Bank |
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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 |
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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 |
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Feb 6, 2020 |
Kian Howe Ong Co-author: Rasyad Parinduri |
University of Nottingham Ningbo China |
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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 |
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Jun 4, 2020 |
Filippo di Mauro |
National University of Singapore |
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Jun 11, 2020 |
Nina Weimann-Sandig |
Dresden University |
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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 |
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Sept 10, 2020 |
Alistair Dieppe, Gene Kindberg-Hanlon |
European Central Bank and World Bank |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dec 17, 2020 |
Daniel Gerszon Mahler |
World Bank |
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 |
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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 |
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Dec 10, 2019 |
Davide S. Mare |
World Bank |
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. |
Korea University |
Korean Unification: Economic Adjustments Under German Assumptions |
Feb 21, 2019 |
Woong Yong Park |
Seoul National University |
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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 |
World Bank |
Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Recruits |
May 23, 2019 |
Davin Chor |
Dartmouth College and National University of Singapore |
The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown∞ |
May 30, 2019 |
Derek Kok |
Sunway University |
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Jul 11, 2019 |
Horng Chern Wong |
University of Warwick |
2018 Second Half Season
2018 First Half Season
2017 Second Half Season
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Paper |
Sep 7, 2017 |
Thanyaporn Chankrajang |
Chulalongkorn University |
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Sep 14, 2017 |
Markus Brueckner |
Australian National University |
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Sep 21, 2017 |
Sergio Schmukler |
World Bank |
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Sep 28, 2017 |
Trung Hoang |
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences |
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Oct 3, 2017 |
Mary Hallward-Driemeier, |
World Bank |
Technological Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries |
Oct 26, 2017 |
Liang Choon Wang |
Monash University |
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Nov 23, 2017 |
Donghyun Park, |
Asian Development Bank |
Do Local Currency Bond Markets Enhance Financial Stability? Some Empirical Evidence |
Nov 28, 2017 |
Young Eun Kim |
World Bank |
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Nov 30, 2017 |
Phornchanok Cumperayot |
Chulalongkorn University |
2017 First Half Season
2016 Second Half Season
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Paper |
Sep 1, 2016 |
Boon Hwa Tng |
Bank Negara Malaysia |
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Sep 13, 2016 |
Philip O'Keefe |
World Bank |
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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, |
University of Malaya, |
Is Inequality in Malaysia Really Going Down? A Puzzle Explored |
Oct 27, 2016 |
Norman Loayza |
World Bank |
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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 |
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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, |
Martin Kanz |
World Bank |
Moral Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card |
Feb 18, 2016 |
Hai-Anh H. Dang |
World Bank |
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Mar 3, |
John Giles |
World Bank |
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Mar 17, 2016 |
Saumik Paul |
University of Nottingham |
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Mar 30, |
Govinda Timilsina |
World Bank |
The Benefits of Regional Electricity Cooperation and Trade: Lessons from South Asia |
Apr 7, |
Norman Loayza |
World Bank |
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Apr 14, 2016 |
Dean Jolliffe |
World Bank |
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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 |
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July 28, 2016 |
Steven Michael Pennings |
World Bank |
Note: ∞ World Bank – University of Malaya Seminar Series. These joint seminars are hosted alternately by the World Bank and the University of Malaya.