Development Economics Seminar

The Development Economics Group in partnership with DENeB, organizes weekly seminars that take place on Mondays at 12:30 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 OEC 0.168 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 Summer Term 2025

• Monday, April 7, 2025
  12:30-13:30 Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, April 14, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Anna Adamecz (University College London)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: OEC 0.168
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, May 5, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Nicolas Berman (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, May 12, 2025
  tbc Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah (World Bank)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Friday, May 16, 2025
  14:00 - 15:00 Frederik Noack (University of British Columbia)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 1.101
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, May 19, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Radhika Jain (University College London)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: WZB Berlin
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, May 26, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Sandra Polania Reyes (University of Navarra)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: Oec 0.168
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, June 2, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Ann-Sofie Isaksson (University of Gothenburg)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: Oec 0.168
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, June 16, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Erwin Bulte (Wageningen University)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: OEC 0.168
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, June 23, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Evans Osabuohien (Covenant University)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, June 30, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Charlotte Middelhoff (University of Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: OEC 0.168
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, July 7, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30
  Mridhula Mohan (University of Göttingen)
  Samuel Siewers (GIGA, University of Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: OEC 0.168
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, July 14, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30
  Lena Merkel (GIGA, University of Göttingen)
  Laura Barros (University of Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: OEC 0.168
  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)
    
  • October 17, 2022 - Alexandra Scacco (WZB)
    
  • October 24, 2022 - Raphael Franck (Hebrew University)
    
  • November 7, 2022 - Xavier Gine (World Bank)
    
  • November 21, 2022 - Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
    
  • December 5, 2022 - Sebastian Jävervall (IfW Kiel)
    
  • December 12, 2022 - David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
    
  • January 16, 2023 - Soumya Balasubramanya (World Bank)
    
  • January 30, 2023 - Toman Barsbai (University of Bristol)
    
  • February 14, 2023 - Alberto Abadie (MIT)
    
  • March 1, 2023 - Guo Xu (University of California, Berkeley)
    
  • May 8, 2023 - Paul A. Raschky (Monash University)
    
  • May 15, 2023 - Leah Boustan (Princeton University)
    
  • May 22, 2023 - Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University)
    
  • June 12, 2023 - Ted Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
    
  • June 19, 2023 - Jenny Aker (Tufts University)
    
  • July 10, 2023 - Andreas Freytag (University of Jena)
    
  • July 17, 2023 - Kasper Vrolijk (IDOS)
    
  • October 23, 2023 - Berk Özler (World Bank)
    
  • November 20, 2023 - Joseph Flavian Gomes (Louvain)
    
  • November 27, 2023 - Christine Binzel (FAU Nürnberg)
    
  • December 4, 2023 - Igor Asanov (University of Kassel)
    
  • December 18, 2023 - Benjamin Marx (Boston Unversity)
    
  • January 15, 2024 - Jochen Kluve (KfW)
    
  • January 22, 2024 - Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
    
  • January 29, 2024 - Anna Dreber (Stockholm School of Economics)
    
  • February 5, 2024 - Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)
    
  • April 22, 2024 - Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
    
  • April 29, 2024 - Gerhard Riener (University of Southampton)
    
  • May 6, 2024 - Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University)
    
  • May 13, 2024 - Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
    
  • June 3, 2024 - Clara Brandi (IDOS)
    
  • June 10, 2024 - Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)
    
  • June 24, 2024 - Travers Barclay Child (CEIBS)
    
  • July 1, 2024 - Aletheia Donald (World Bank)
    
  • July 8, 2024 - Manuel Santos Silva (Fu Berlin)
    
  • October 21, 2024 - Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago)
    
  • October 28, 2024 - Menusch Khadjavi Pour (VU Amsterdam)
    
  • November 11, 2024 - Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)
    
  • November 18, 2024 - Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)
    
  • November 25, 2024 - Isabel Günther (ETH Zürich)
    
  • December 11, 2024 - Kyle Emerick (Tufts University)
    
  • January 6, 2025 - Juliano Assuncao (PUC Rio)
    
  • January 13, 2025 - Ágnes Szabó Morvai (KRTK KTI/ University of Debrecen)
    
  • January 20, 2025 - Adel Daoud (Linköping University)