at Williams College
[Note: titles with links will bring you to PDF versions of the papers, but in some cases the links are only accessible to those accessing the Internet from a Williams IP address.]
Tuesday, January 8, 4:00PM, CDE. Shawn Powers, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, CDE Seminar, The Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Randomized Evaluation of Policy in Developing Countries.
Friday, February 8, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE. The 500 Million Challenge: How Finance Can Unlock the Power of the World’s Agricultural Smallholders. Liam Brody, Senior Vice President of Value Chain Relations and Communications at Root Capital. [Note: for Development Dialogues only, reservations are required due to limited seating and provision of lunch. If you are interested in attending, please email Karima Barrow at Karima.E.Barrow@williams.edu and she will let you know if there is room for you.]
[Canceled due to Weather] Friday, March 8, 4:00PM, CDE. David Cole. Korea Transformed: 1952-2012.
Monday March 11, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. George Korniotis, University of Miami. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Income Hedging and Portfolio Decisions.
Thursdsay, March 14, 4:15PM, Wege Auditorium. Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College. Insuring the Uninsured Before and After the Affordable Care Act.
Monday, April 1, 4:00PM, CDE. Petia Topalova, International Monetary Fund and Harvard University. CDE Seminar. The Rising Resilience of Emerging Market and Developing Economies.
Thursday, April 4, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Martin Gaynor, Carnegie-Mellon University. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service.
Wednesday, April 10, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Jon Bakija and William Gentry, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Capital Gains Taxes and Realizations: Evidence from a Long Panel of State-Level Data.
Thursday, April 11, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Henry Schneider, Cornell University. Economics Department Seminar. Checklists for Economic Settings.
Friday, April 12, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE. Stephan Klasen, University of Goettingen. Millennium Development Goals post-2015: A Modest Proposal. [Space is limited, so if students are interested in attending they should send an RSVP to Karima Barrow at keb1@williams.edu.]
Wednedsay, April 17, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Lucie Schmidt, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Growth in the Supplemental Security Income Program for Children: The Role of Local Jurisdictions and Fiscal Incentives. (joint with Julie Cullen)
Thursday, April 18, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Henry Farber, Princeton University, Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Do Extended Unemployment Bene fits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market.
Friday, April 19, Noon, Schapiro 309. Economics Department Seminar. Jane Leber Herr, National Bureau of Economic Research. Understanding the Mechanism of the Return to Delayed First Birth.
[Cancelled due to Illness] Tuesday, April 30, 4:00PM, CDE. Dina Pomeranz, Harvard Business School. CDE Seminar. No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax.
Wednesday, May 1, 4:00PM, Griffin 7. Anand Swamy, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Protecting the Borrower: An Experiment in Colonial India. (joint with Latika Chaudhary)
Tuesday, May 7, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas. Economics Department Seminar. Effect of Enforcement Approach on Environmental Management: Coercive vs. Cooperative Enforcement.
Thursday, September 13, 4:00PM, CDE — Nancy Birdsall , Williams College and Center for Global Development & Jerry Caprio, Williams College, CDE Seminar. The Global Financial Crisis and the Development Agenda .
Wednesday, September 19, 4:00PM, Schapiro Hall 129 – Ken Kuttner, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on House Prices and Credit.
Friday, September 21, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE — Paul Niehaus, University of California San Diego. Introducing a Radical New Way to Give: Directly. [Note: for Development Dialogues only, reservations are required due to limited seating and provision of lunch. If you are interested in attending, please email Karima Barrow at Karima.E.Barrow@williams.edu and she will let you know if there is room for you.]
Tuesday, September 25, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — Bishnupriya Gupta, University of Warwick, Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. India and the Great Divergence: An Anglo-Indian Comparison of GDP per Capita, 1600-1871.
Thursday, September 27, and Friday September 28, ’62 Center Main Stage. Conference on The Future of the World Bank and the IMF: Redesign For a New (and Old) World, sponsored by the Williams College Center for Development Economics. All events listed for September 27 and 28 below (and marked with an asterisk *) are part of this conference. For these events only, tickets are required but are free of charge. To reserve tickets, contact the ’62 Center Box Office at (413) 597-2425, Tuesday through Saturday, 1-5PM, or reserve online at 62center.williams.edu.
Thursday, September 27, 4:00PM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development and Williams College; Ishrat Husain, Former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan; and Robert Wade, London School of Economics; moderated by Jerry Caprio, Williams College. What Kind of World Bank in the 21st Century? *
Thursday, September 27, 8:00PM, ’62 Center Main Stage – James Robinson, Harvard University. Why Nations Fail. *
Friday, September 28, 8:30AM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel Discussion with: Michael Bordo, Rutgers University; Atish R. Ghosh, International Monetary Fund; James Hanson, formerly World Bank; and Garry Schinasi, formerly International Monetary Fund. Moderated by Peter Montiel, Williams College. The Global Financial Architecture and Financial Stability: What Works? *
Friday, September 28, 9:45AM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Philip Lane, Trinity College (Dublin); Guillermo Ortiz, President, Banorte and former Governor, Banco Central de Mexico; and Ted Truman, The Peterson Institute for International Economics and Williams College. Moderated by Kenneth Kuttner, Williams College. The Role of a Lender of Last Resort. *
Friday, September 28, 11:35AM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Olivier Blanchard, International Monetary Fund; Michael Kremer, Harvard University; and Luis Serven, The World Bank. Moderated by Peter Pedroni, Williams College. The Role of Research in the Bank and the Fund. *
Friday, September 28, 1:45PM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Ken Chomitz, The World Bank; Matt Kotchen, Yale University; Andrew Steer, President, World Resources Institute, formerly Special Envoy for Climate Change, The World Bank. Moderated by Sarah Jacobson, Williams College. Environment and Development? *
Friday, September 28, 3:00PM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Uri Dadush, The Carnegie Foundation and Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University. Moderated by Ashok Rai, Williams College. The Rise of Emerging Markets and the International Financial Institutions. *
Tuesday, October 16, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — Nathan Nunn, Harvard University, Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough.
Thursday, October 18, 7:00PM, Clark Hall Room 105 — Jerry Caprio, Williams College. More than Medicare, Social Security, Even War: the Cost of Financial Misregulation.
Friday, October 19, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE — Sajeda Amin, Population Council, Gender-Based Violence. [Note: for Development Dialogues only, reservations are required due to limited seating and provision of lunch. If you are interested in attending, please email Karima Barrow at Karima.E.Barrow@williams.edu and she will let you know if there is room for you.]
Wednesday, October 24, 4:00PM, Griffin 7 — Lucie Schmidt, Lara Shore-Sheppard, and Tara Watson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity.
Wednesday, October 31, 12:30PM, Griffin 6 — Naomi Feldman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Economics Department Seminar. The Impact of Tax Exclusive and Inclusive Prices on Demand. [Note: this was originally scheduled for Tuesday Oct. 30th but has been moved due to the Hurricane Sandy.]
Friday, November 2, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — John Briscoe, Harvard University (and former Senior Water Advisor at the World Bank). CDE Seminar. The Challenge of Water Security in a Changing World. (Click here to read an interview with John Briscoe addressing the topic of his talk).
Friday, November 9, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE — Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development and Williams College. How to Manage Easy Oil Money: Options and a New Idea? [Note: for Development Dialogues only, reservations are required due to limited seating and provision of lunch. If you are interested in attending, please email Karima Barrow at Karima.E.Barrow@williams.edu and she will let you know if there is room for you.]
Tuesday, November 13, 4:00PM, CDE — Nancy Birdsall, Williams College and Center for Global Development, CDE seminar. Institution Building through Cash on Delivery Aid.
Wednesday, November 14, 4:00PM, Griffin 7– Will Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. The Impact of Corruption on Exporting.
Wednesday, November 28, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 – Pierre-Richard Agenor, University of Manchester, joint Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE Seminar. Public Capital, Growth and Welfare.
Wednesday, December 5 4:00PM, Griffin 6 – Tanseli Savaser, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. Managerial Stock Options and Firm Risk: The Impact of Regulatory Changes.