Development Economics Seminar

The Development Economics Group in partnership with DENeB, organizes weekly seminars that take place on Mondays at 1:00 PM (unless otherwise indicated).

The seminar consists of up to two short presentations by junior internal speakers or a single presentation by invited external speakers with a total duration of 60 minutes. We invite you to join us to grab lunch together before the seminar, meeting at the entrance of Z-Mensa at noon.

The seminars are conducted in a hybrid format in room VG 3.104 and digital participants via zoom. Please use the following Link to subscribe to the mailing list and receive updates on the seminars, or to manage your subscription and unsubscribe if needed.

List of presenters in the winter term 2022

• Monday, October 17, 2022
  13:00 - 14:00 Alexandra Scacco (WZB)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: online
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, October 24, 2022
  13:00 - 14:00 Raphael Franck (Hebrew University)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 7, 2022
  14:00 - 15:00 Xavier Gine (World Bank)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: online
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 14, 2022
  13:00 - 13:30 Lennart Reiners (KfW Development Bank)
  13:30 - 14:00 Florian Münch (TU Berlin)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speakers: online
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 21, 2022
  13:00 - 14:00 Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 28, 2022
  13:00 - 13:45 Zain Chaudhry
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, December 5, 2022
  13:00 - 14:00 Sebastian Jävervall (IfW Kiel)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, December 12, 2022
  17:00 - 18:00 David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: online
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, December 19, 2022
  13:00 - 13:45 Daniela Araujo (Uni Bamberg)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 9, 2023
  13:00 - 13:30 Ann-Charline Weber (Uni Göttingen)
  13:30 - 14:00 Markus Heemann (Uni Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speakers: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 16, 2023
  13:00-13:45 Soumya Balasubramanya (World Bank)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: online
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 23, 2023
  13:00 - 13:30 Daniel Geissel (Uni Göttingen)
  13:30 - 14:00 Utz Pape (Uni Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 30, 2023
  13:00 - 13:45 Toman Barsbai (University of Bristol)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: online
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, February 6, 2023
  13:00 - 13:30 Lukas Wellner (Uni Göttingen/Heidelberg)
  13:30 - 14:00 Julie Perng (Uni Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speakers: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Tuesday, February 14, 2023
  15:00 - 16:00 Alberto Abadie (MIT)
  Format: online
  Speaker: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Wednesday, March 1, 2023
  16:00 - 17:00 Guo Xu (University of California, Berkeley)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: online
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, March 6, 2023
  13:00 - 13:30 Johannes Matzat (Uni Göttingen/Heidelberg)
  13:30 - 14:00 Katharina Fietz (GIGA)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 3.104
  Zoom: link
  

List of external presenters in the past

• March 15, 2021 - Douglas Gollin (Oxford University)
  
• March 29, 2021 - Sylvie Lambert (Paris School of Economics)
  
• April 12, 2021 - Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
  
• April 26, 2021 - Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University)
  
• May 10, 2021 - Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia)
  
• May 17, 2021 - Joel Stiebale (Düsseldorf University)
  
• June 7, 2021 - Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics)
  
• June 21, 2021 - Sascha Becker (Monash University)
  
• July 12, 2021 - Margherita Calderone (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
  
• July 26, 2021 - Veronica Frisancho (Inter-American Development Bank)
  
• September 13, 2021 - Samuel Bazzi (University of California, San Diego)
  
• November 1, 2021 - Christopher Kilby (Villanova University)
  
• November 15, 2021 - Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
  
• November 22, 2021 - Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University)
  
• December 20, 2021 - Dave Donaldson (MIT)
  
• January 17, 2022 - Bruno Crépon (ENSAE and École Polytechnique)
  
• February 10, 2022 - Davide Cantoni (LMU)
  
• March 14, 2022 - Joseph Shapiro (UC Berkley)
  
• April 11, 2022 - Pedro Vicente (NOVA SBE)
  
• May 2, 2022 - David McKenzie (World Bank)
  
• May 10, 2022 - Meredith Startz (Dartmouth)
  
• May 16, 2022 - Hans Joachim Voth (Uni Zurich)
  
• June 16, 2022 - Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
  
• July 4, 2022 - Sandra Sequeira (LSE)
  
• July 11, 2022 - André Gröger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
  
• July 18, 2022 - Michael Grimm (Uni Passau)
  
• July 25, 2022 - Anke Höffler (Uni Konstanz)