Past Events

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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)

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.................

19th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics

Friday, 3/18/2011, 8:30am - 5:00pm

Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Hosted by The Institute for International Economic Policy View the conference announcement here..........

Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaption Assistance

Saturday, 3/12/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

David Wheeler Center for Global Development.........

1st Annual Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) Conference

Friday, 3/11/2011, 8:00am - 4:45pm

The Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) is a forum that highlights trade research at institutions in the Washington D.C. area.

Magic Transition? Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Rural China from 1988 to 2002

Tuesday, 3/8/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Yan Sun Tuesday, March 8, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW Washington, DC 20052..................................

Self Interest, Altruism, and Super-Altruism in Foreign Aid: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test

Monday, 2/28/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Andrew W. Horowitz University of Arkansas....