Past Events
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Wednesday, 4/25/2012, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Climate Impact and Food Security Co-sponsors: SPHHS and Office of Sustainability Innovation Picture ID/GWID Required Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:00 to 3:00pm
Tuesday, 11/29/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Carmen Pages-Serra Inter-American Development Bank For more information, click here. Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room R
The measurement of human development in theory and in practice”
Tuesday, 11/22/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Eduardo Zambrano California Polytechnic State University and Cornell University Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room
“Who Smooths What? Asset Smoothing Versus Consumption Smoothing in Burkina Faso”
Tuesday, 11/15/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Travis J. Lybbert University of California Davis (joint with Michael Carter, UC-Davis) Co-sponsor: GWU Department of Economics Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:30
Wednesday, 11/9/2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Fred Joutz Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Program on Forecasting, GWU Desmond Lachman Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Holger
Wednesday, 10/26/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Organized by The Institute for International Economic Policy and Transparency International’s (UK) International Defence & Security Programme To listen to the..
Tariff Binding Overhang: Theory and Evidence
Monday, 10/10/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Mostafa Beshkar Assistant Professor of Economics and Peter T. Paul Research Fellow, University of New Hampshire Prof. Beshkar’s Paper can be found here. Co-spon
Why Cooperate Over Water? Water Has No Borders
Monday, 10/3/2011, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Join the World Affairs Council-Washington, DC for an evening with Gidon Bromberg, Co-Director of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) To RSVP for the confer
Volatility in Commodity Markets – Causes and Impacts on the Poor
Thursday, 9/22/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Joachim von Braun Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Professor for Economic and Technological Change at University of Bonn, Germany and f
Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and out of Poverty
Tuesday, 9/20/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Peter Lanjouw Research Department, World Bank Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW Washington
Wednesday, 9/14/2011, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Robert Zoellick President, World Bank In the run-up to the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Mr. Zoellick will discuss recent developments and the changing world
Advances in Behavioral Finance
Thursday, 5/26/2011, 8:15am - 6:00pm
8:15 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Breakfast 8:45 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks IIEP Director Stephen C. Smith and IMF Institute Deputy Director Eric Clifton 9:00 a.m.-10:30
Monday, 4/25/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Interest in corruption (abuse of public o¢ ce for private gains) is not of recent origin. In Arthashastra, Kautilya was concerned, among other themes, in design
Tuesday, 4/12/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Irina Murtazashvili University of Pittsburgh Hosted by the GWU Department of Economics
Managers’ Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages
Saturday, 4/9/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Luca David Opromolla Banco de Portugal Hosted by the GWU Department of Economics
The Global Economic Crisis: A View from Montenegro
Saturday, 4/9/2011, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Milorad Katnić Finance Minister, Montenegro The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Human Rights, Development and Economic Growth – Metrics, New Ways of Thinking, and New Strategies
Thursday, 4/7/2011, 12:30pm - 5:30pm
Since the members of the UN negotiated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the world has made great human rights progress. But that progress is..
Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms: Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium Redux
Tuesday, 4/5/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Ariell Reshef University of Virginia Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Friday, 4/1/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Rema Hanna Harvard University Download the paper here. Co-sponsored by the GWU Department of Economics............................
Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?
Tuesday, 3/29/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Andrew Foster with Mark Rosenzweig Brown University & Yale University.................