The 5th Research Workshop will include two full-day academic workshops. Monday (6/6) will consist of a number of seminars on the theme Political Economy of Development and Tuesday (7/6) will feature seminars focused on Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Countries.
Monday June 6th
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Introduction
Luis Ravina (NCID Director)
10.45 Research Keynote: Women in Politics: Participation and Policy Preferences
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex)
12.00 Coffee Break
12.30 Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Pedro Vicente (Nova Universidade Lisbon and Novafrica)
13.15 Lack of Trust Generates Demand for Institutions, and Institutions Crowd Out Civic Spirit: Experimental Evidence
Irma Clots-Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
14.00 Lunch Break
15.30 Maternal Mortality and Female Life Expectancy: The Importance of Gender Inequality
Joseph Flavian Gomes (NCID, Universidad de Navarra)
16.15 "For the Love of the Republic Education, Secularism and Empowerment"
Selim Gulesci (Bocconi University)
17.00 Coffee Break
17.30 Terrorism Risk and Political Participation
Hasin Yousaf (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
18.15 The Political Economy of Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Michele Valsecchi (University of Gothenburg)
19.00 Break
19.30 Policy Keynote: Using a Multidimensional Poverty Indicator to guide Public Policy in Mexico
Gonzalo Hernández Licona (CONEVAL, México) | OPEN CONFERENCE
Tuesday June 7th
10.15 Coffee
10.45 Research Keynote: “Size and Development of the Shadow Economy in Developing Countries: What do we (not) know?”
Friedrich Schneider (Linz, IZA)
12.00 Coffee Break
12.30 The EMBI in Latin America: Fractional Integration, Non-linearities and Breaks
Guglielmo Caporale (Brunel University)
13.15 Macroprudential Policies in Low-Income Countries
Margarita Rubio (University of Nottingham)
14.00 Lunch Break
15.30 From Ambition to Execution: Policies in Support of Sustainable Development Goals
Stefania Fabrizio (IMF)
16.15 Natural Resources, Decentralization, and Risk Sharing: Can Resource Booms Unify Nations?
Fidel Perez Sebastian (University of Alicante)
17.00 Coffee Break
17.30 Intra-regional Risk Sharing In Ecowas Countries: a Panel Svar Approach
Djogbenou Ruben Barnabas (National Institute of Statistics And Applied Economics of Abidjan)
18.15 The fungibility of foreign aid with institutional quality: A panel analysis of developing countries
Christiana Anaxagorou (University of Sheffield)
19.00 Break
19.30 Keynote: Export Diversification and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from a New Dataset
Chris Papageorgiou (IMF) | OPEN CONFERENCE