The Macroeconomics, Trade, and Finance Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department. The series invites leading researchers from the fields of macroeconomics, growth, trade, international integration and finance to present the results of their recent research in a seminar format.
Spring 2025 Seminars
For connection information, please contact Carmen Andira Watson (cwatson@worldbank.org).
Date |
Time |
Venue |
Speaker |
Paper |
Thursday February 27, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
G4 001 |
Keith Head (University of British Columbia) |
Industrial policies for multi-stage production: The battle for battery-powered vehicles |
Thursday March 06, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
MC 4-100 |
Paco Buera (Washington University) |
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Thursday March 13, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
G4-001 |
Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University) |
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Thursday March 20, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
MC 4-300 |
Roberto Samaniego (George Washington University) |
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Thursday March 27, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
MC 4-300 |
David Hummels (Purdue University) |
How Globalization Changes the Level and Structureof Executive Compensation |
Wednesday April 02, 2025 |
12:00 ¨C 1:15 pm |
(IMF) HQ-9-611 |
Ryan Kellog (University of Chicago) |
The End of Oil |
Thursday April 10, 2025 |
12:00 ¨C 1:15 pm |
G4-001 |
Pablo Otonello (University of Maryland) |
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Friday April 18, 2025 |
10:30 - 12:00pm |
GWU Campus (Duques 255 at ) | Matilde Bombardini (Berkeley, joint with George Washington University) |
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Thursday May 1, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
G2-116 |
Juliana Salomao (University of Minnesota) |
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Thursday May 8, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
G2-116 |
David Lagakos (Boston University) |
Is the Electricity Sector a Weak Link in Development? |
Thursday May 15, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
G2-116 |
Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University) |
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them |
Thursday May 22, 2025 |
12:00 - 1:15pm |
G2-116 |
Jeremy Majerovitz (University of Notre Dame) |
Measuring Misallocation with Experiments |
Tuesday May 27, 2025 |
11:00 - 12:15pm |
G4-001 |
Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago) |
Trade Shocks in Distorted Economies: Evidence from Firm-level Import Data from 57 Countries |
| Thursday May 29, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | G2-116 | Natalia Ramondo (Boston University) | Carbon Emissions in the Global Economy |
| Wednesday June 4, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00pm | (IMF) HQ1-9-611 | Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern University) | Demographics and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Mobile Payments |
| Thursday, June 26, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:15 pm | G2-116 | Claudio Raddatz (University of Chile) |
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Last Updated: May 30, 2025
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The Development Research Group is the World Bank's principal research department. With its cross-cutting expertise on a broad range of topics and countries, the department is one of the most influential centers of development research in the world.
Date: January 06 - June 30, 2025 ET
Location: Washington, DC