International Trade and Development Workshops - Fall, 2009

Trade and Development Workshops are held on Tuesdays from 11:00 am - 12:30 p.m.(unless otherwise noted) in John W. Kendrick Seminar Room, Room 321 at 2115 G Street (unless otherwise noted). For information please contact Prof. Stephen Smith at ssmith@gwu.edu or (202) 994-8086 .

Friday, July 24, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Duques 451 (Minerva)
Thorsten Beck, Tilburg University, “Are Women Better Loan Officers?”
(Joint seminar with IIEP and CIBER).
Light lunch will be provided – Please RSVP to GW-CIBER at ciber@gwu.edu

THURSDAY, October 8, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Maria Heracleous, American University
"Education Transfers and the Demand for Education in Urban Mexico."

Tuesday, October 20, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Wenjie Chen, The George Washington University
"Does the county of origin of the acquiring firm impact performance?"
(Joint with the University Seminar Series: "Regionalism and Global Economic Development")

Tuesday, November 3, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Gerald C. Nelson, IFPRI
“Climate change and agriculture: Impacts and the costs of adaptation in developing countries”
(Joint with IIEP)

THURSDAY, November 5, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon
"Measuring Benefits of Foreign Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set"
(Joint with Microeconomics Workshop Series and University Seminar Series: "Regionalism and Global Economic Development")

FRIDAY, November 6, 12:00-1:30 pm
Location: ESIA (1957 E ST NW) Lindner Commons
Randy Kroszner, University of Chicago Business School (Former Federal Reserve Board Governor)
The "Future of Financial Regulation"
(Joint with IIEP)

Tuesday, November 10, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
John Ries, University of British Columbia
"The Erosion of Colonial Trade Linkages After Independence"
(with Keith Head and Thierry Mayer)
(Joint with the University Seminar Series: "Regionalism and Global Economic Development")

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Lindner Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St., NW
International Economic Policy Forum
Phillip Swagel, Georgetown University and former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at Treasury Dept.
"The Financial Crisis: An Inside View"
Light Lunch will be provided
RSVP to iiep@gwu.edu

THURSDAY, November 12, 11:00-12:30
Location: ESIA (1957 E ST NW) Room 505
Segio Margulis, Lead Environmental Economist for Climate Change, World Bank
Urvashi Narain, Senior Environmental Economist
"Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: Methodology"
(Joint with IIEP)

FRIDAY, November 13, 12:30-2
Location: ESIA (1957 E ST NW) Suite 501 conference room
Vera Chiodi, Poverty Action Lab J-PAL Europe and Paris School of Economics,
“The Existence of Poverty Traps: Old Question-New Answer. Evidence from Rural Mexico”

FRIDAY, November 20, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Lindner Commons, 1957 E St., NW
G2 at GW: 2nd Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations
Morning session on development in China, panel includes:

Bruce Reynolds, University of Virginia
Loren Brandt, Univ. of Toronto
John Giles, Michigan State University and World Bank
Dr. Xiaobo Zhang , IFPRI
Lixin Colin Xu, World Bank

Tuesday, December 8, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Filipe R. Campante, Harvard University
"A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Expected Influence Approach and Application to Population and Capital Cities" with Quoc-Anh Do.

THURSDAY, December 10, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Chris Barrett, Cornell University
TBA

Tuesday, January 12, 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Sarah Baird, GWU School of Public Health
"Designing Cost-Effective Cash Transfer Programs to Boost Schooling among Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa"