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 1.105 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 2024

Monday, April 8, 2024
12:30 - 13:15 Tista Mukherjee (Uni Göttingen)
Internal presentation
Format: hybrid
Speaker: in person
Location: VG 1.105
Zoom: link
Monday, April 22, 2024
13:00 - 14:00 Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
Format: online
Zoom: link
Monday, May 6, 2024
13:00 - 14:00 Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University)
Format: online
Zoom: link
Monday, May 13, 2024
13:00 - 14:00 Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Format: online
Zoom: link
Monday, May 27, 2024
12:30 - 13:00 Regina Schnars (GIGA/Uni Göttingen)
Internal presentation
Format: hybrid
Speaker: in person
Location: VG 1.105
Zoom: link
Monday, June 3, 2024
TBA
Monday, June 10, 2024
12:30 - 13:30 Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)
Format: hybrid
Speaker: in person
Location: VG 1.105
Zoom: link
Monday, June 17, 2024
12:30 - 13:00 Sneha Lamba (Uni Göttingen)
Internal presentation
Format: hybrid
Speaker: in person
Location: VG 1.105
Zoom: link
Monday, June 24, 2024
12:30 - 13:30 Heiwai Tang (HKU Business School)
Format: hybrid
Speaker: in person
Location: VG 1.105
Zoom: link
Monday, June 1, 2024
15:00 - 16:00 Aletheia Donald (World Bank)
Format: online
Zoom: link
Monday, June 8, 2024
13:00 - 14:00 Manuel Santos Silva (Fu Berlin)
Format: online
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)