Past Events

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Climate, Ecosystem Resilience and the Slave Trade

Tuesday, 9/4/2012, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

James Fenske University Lecturer in Economic History, Oxford University The paper can be found here. Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendric

Making Urbanization in Asia Sustainable: Trends and Challenges

Wednesday, 8/29/2012, 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Guanghua Wan Asian Development Bank PISA and ADB The PowerPoint presentation can be found here. Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:15 to 2:00pm Lindner Commons, 6th

The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and Office of Sustainability Innovation Dialogue PanelT

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

“Does expanding health insurance beyond formal sector workers encourage informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico’s Seguro Popular.”

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

Euro at the Crossroads?

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

Corruption and Conflict

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

Can Trade Agreements Facilitate the Free Flow of Information: The Trans-Pacific Partnership as a Case Study

Wednesday, 9/21/2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

President Obama has described the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as the first 21st century trade agreement. These negotiations are particularly important to ad

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

Beyond Aid

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

Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way

Monday, 9/12/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Steven Radelet Chief Economist, USAID Dr. Radelet’s book can be previewed here. Please find his PowerPoint presentation here. Audio of Dr. Radelet’s presentatio

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

Petty Corruption

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

A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China

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)