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 VG 4.104 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 2025/26

• Monday, October 27, 2025
  12:30-13:30 Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 3, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Martin Abel (Bowdoin College)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 4.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 10, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 17, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Mylene Lagarde (LSE)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, November 24, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Ting Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 4.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, December 1, 2025
  tbc Patrick Premand (World Bank)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, December 8, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Chris Udry (Northwestern University)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, December 15, 2025
  12:30 - 13:30 Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 5, 2026
  12:30 - 13:30
  Frank Odhiambo (University of Göttingen)
  Lisa Bogler (University of Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 4.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 12, 2026
  12:30 - 13:30
  Laura Wedemeyer (University of Göttingen)
  Regina Schnars (University of Göttingen and GIGA)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 4.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 19, 2026
  12:30 - 13:30
  Subarna Banerjee (University of Göttingen)
  Julie Perng (University of Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 4.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, January 26, 2026
  tbc Eliana Carranza (World Bank)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, February 2, 2026
  12:30 - 13:30
  Pawandeep Kaur (University of Göttingen)
  Tarah Lynn Ramthun (University of Göttingen)
  Internal presentation
  Format: hybrid
  Speaker: in person
  Location: VG 4.104
  Zoom: link
  
  
• Monday, February 9, 2026
  12:30 - 13:30 Simon Heß (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  Format: online
  Zoom: link
  

  List of external presenters in the past

  
  
  • June 23, 2025 - Evans Osabuohien (Covenant University)
    
  • June 16, 2025 - Erwin Bulte (Wageningen University)
    
  • June 2, 2025 - Ann-Sofie Isaksson (University of Gothenburg)
    
  • May 26, 2025 - Sandra Polania Reyes (University of Navarra)
    
  • May 19, 2025 - Radhika Jain (University College London)
    
  • May 16, 2025 - Frederik Noack (University of British Columbia)
    
  • May 12, 2025 - Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah (World Bank)
    
  • May 5, 2025 - Nicolas Berman (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
    
  • April 14, 2025 - Anna Adamecz (University College London)
    
  • April 7, 2025 - Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford)
    
  • January 20, 2025 - Adel Daoud (Linköping University)
    
  • January 13, 2025 - Ágnes Szabó Morvai (KRTK KTI/ University of Debrecen)
    
  • January 6, 2025 - Juliano Assuncao (PUC Rio)
    
  • December 11, 2024 - Kyle Emerick (Tufts University)
    
  • November 25, 2024 - Isabel Günther (ETH Zürich)
    
  • November 18, 2024 - Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)
    
  • November 11, 2024 - Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)
    
  • October 28, 2024 - Menusch Khadjavi Pour (VU Amsterdam)
    
  • October 21, 2024 - Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago)
    
  • July 8, 2024 - Manuel Santos Silva (Fu Berlin)
    
  • July 1, 2024 - Aletheia Donald (World Bank)
    
  • June 24, 2024 - Travers Barclay Child (CEIBS)
    
  • June 10, 2024 - Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)
    
  • June 3, 2024 - Clara Brandi (IDOS)
    
  • May 13, 2024 - Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
    
  • May 6, 2024 - Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University)
    
  • April 29, 2024 - Gerhard Riener (University of Southampton)
    
  • April 22, 2024 - Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
    
  • February 5, 2024 - Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)
    
  • January 29, 2024 - Anna Dreber (Stockholm School of Economics)
    
  • January 22, 2024 - Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
    
  • January 15, 2024 - Jochen Kluve (KfW)
    
  • December 18, 2023 - Benjamin Marx (Boston Unversity)
    
  • December 4, 2023 - Igor Asanov (University of Kassel)
    
  • November 27, 2023 - Christine Binzel (FAU Nürnberg)
    
  • November 20, 2023 - Joseph Flavian Gomes (Louvain)
    
  • October 23, 2023 - Berk Özler (World Bank)
    
  • July 17, 2023 - Kasper Vrolijk (IDOS)
    
  • July 10, 2023 - Andreas Freytag (University of Jena)
    
  • June 19, 2023 - Jenny Aker (Tufts University)
    
  • June 12, 2023 - Ted Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
    
  • May 22, 2023 - Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University)
    
  • May 15, 2023 - Leah Boustan (Princeton University)
    
  • May 8, 2023 - Paul A. Raschky (Monash University)
    
  • March 1, 2023 - Guo Xu (University of California, Berkeley)
    
  • February 14, 2023 - Alberto Abadie (MIT)
    
  • January 30, 2023 - Toman Barsbai (University of Bristol)
    
  • January 16, 2023 - Soumya Balasubramanya (World Bank)
    
  • December 12, 2022 - David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
    
  • December 5, 2022 - Sebastian Jävervall (IfW Kiel)
    
  • November 21, 2022 - Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
    
  • November 7, 2022 - Xavier Gine (World Bank)
    
  • October 24, 2022 - Raphael Franck (Hebrew University)
    
  • October 17, 2022 - Alexandra Scacco (WZB)
    
  • July 25, 2022 - Anke Höffler (Uni Konstanz)
    
  • July 18, 2022 - Michael Grimm (Uni Passau)
    
  • July 11, 2022 - André Gröger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
    
  • July 4, 2022 - Sandra Sequeira (LSE)
    
  • June 16, 2022 - Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
    
  • May 16, 2022 - Hans Joachim Voth (Uni Zurich)
    
  • May 10, 2022 - Meredith Startz (Dartmouth)
    
  • May 2, 2022 - David McKenzie (World Bank)
    
  • April 11, 2022 - Pedro Vicente (NOVA SBE)
    
  • March 14, 2022 - Joseph Shapiro (UC Berkley)
    
  • February 10, 2022 - Davide Cantoni (LMU)
    
  • January 17, 2022 - Bruno Crépon (ENSAE and École Polytechnique)
    
  • December 20, 2021 - Dave Donaldson (MIT)
    
  • November 22, 2021 - Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University)
    
  • November 15, 2021 - Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
    
  • November 1, 2021 - Christopher Kilby (Villanova University)
    
  • September 13, 2021 - Samuel Bazzi (University of California, San Diego)
    
  • July 26, 2021 - Veronica Frisancho (Inter-American Development Bank)
    
  • July 12, 2021 - Margherita Calderone (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
    
  • June 21, 2021 - Sascha Becker (Monash University)
    
  • June 7, 2021 - Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics)
    
  • May 17, 2021 - Joel Stiebale (Düsseldorf University)
    
  • May 10, 2021 - Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia)
    
  • April 26, 2021 - Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University)
    
  • April 12, 2021 - Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
    
  • March 29, 2021 - Sylvie Lambert (Paris School of Economics)
    
  • March 15, 2021 - Douglas Gollin (Oxford University)