The Poverty & Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department. The series invites leading researchers in applied microeconomics from the fields of poverty, human development, agriculture, political economy, behavioral economics, private sector development, and a range of other fields to present the results of their most recent research in a seminar format.
Development Research Group Winter 2025 Seminar Series
This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.
Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
Wednesday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | John Becko (MIT/Princeton post-doc) | |
Monday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Maria Constanza Abuin (Harvard University) | Power Decarbonization in a Global Energy Market: The Climate Effect of U.S. LNG Exports |
Tuesday January 14, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Sungwan Hong (Pennsylvania State University) | Green Industrial Policies and Energy Transition in the Globalized Economy |
Wednesday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4 -001 | Florian Munch (London School of Economics) | |
Thursday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4 -001 | Carolyn Pelnik (Tufts University) | Moving to Profitability? Alleviating Constraints on Microentrepreneur Location |
Tuesday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Deivy Houeix (MIT) | Asymmetric Information and Digital Technology Adoption: Evidence from Senegal* |
Wednesday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Jess Rudder (University of Chicago) | Learning from Weather Forecasts and Short-Run Adaptation: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment |
Thursday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Hiroshi Toma (University of Michigan) | |
Monday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Lucia Casal (Cornell University) | Lock-In and Productive Innovations: Implications for Firm-to-Firm Innovation Pass-Through |
Wednesday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Fernando Arce Munoz (University of Minnesota) | |
| Thursday January 30, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Filip Milosavljević (Washington University) | |
Monday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Abdoulaye Cisse (University of California Berkeley) | The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Senegal |
Tuesday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Oluchi Mbonu (Harvard University) | Market Segmentation and Coordination Costs: Evidence from Johannesburg’s Minibus Networks |
Wednesday | 12:30 - 2:00pm ET | G 4-001 | Charlotte De Canniere (KU Leuven) | Pump it? Market Power and the Energy Transition in the Global Oil Market |
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Last Updated: Jan 09, 2025