The Development Economics Group in partnership with DENeB, organizes weekly seminars that take place on Mondays at 12:30 PM (unless otherwise indicated). The seminar consists of up to two short presentations by junior internal speakers or a single presentation by invited external speakers with a total duration of 60 minutes. We invite you to join us to grab lunch together before the seminar, meeting at the entrance of Z-Mensa at noon. The seminars are conducted in a hybrid format in room VG 2.104 and digital participants via zoom. Please use the following Link to subscribe to the mailing list and receive updates on the seminars, or to manage your subscription and unsubscribe if needed. Monday, April 13, 2026 Monday, April 20, 2026 Monday, April 27, 2026 Monday, May 4, 2026 Monday, May 11, 2026 Monday, May 18, 2026 Monday, June 1, 2026 Monday, June 8, 2026 Monday, June 15, 2026 Monday, June 22, 2026 Monday, June 29, 2026 Monday, July 6, 2026 Monday, July 13, 2026 February 23, 2026 February 9, 2026 January 26, 2026 December 15, 2025 December 8, 2025 December 1, 2025 November 24, 2025 November 17, 2025 November 10, 2025 November 3, 2025 October 27, 2025 June 23, 2025 June 16, 2025 June 2, 2025 May 26, 2025 May 19, 2025 May 16, 2025 May 12, 2025 May 5, 2025 April 14, 2025 April 7, 2025 January 20, 2025 January 13, 2025 January 6, 2025 December 11, 2024 November 25, 2024 November 18, 2024 November 11, 2024 October 28, 2024 October 21, 2024 July 8, 2024 July 1, 2024 June 24, 2024 June 10, 2024 June 3, 2024 May 13, 2024 May 6, 2024 April 29, 2024 April 22, 2024 February 5, 2024 January 29, 2024 January 22, 2024 January 15, 2024 December 18, 2023 December 4, 2023 November 27, 2023 November 20, 2023 October 23, 2023 July 17, 2023 July 10, 2023 June 19, 2023 June 12, 2023 May 22, 2023 May 15, 2023 May 8, 2023 March 1, 2023 February 14, 2023 January 30, 2023 January 16, 2023 December 12, 2022 December 5, 2022 November 21, 2022 November 7, 2022 October 24, 2022 October 17, 2022 July 25, 2022 July 18, 2022 July 11, 2022 July 4, 2022 June 16, 2022 May 16, 2022 May 10, 2022 May 2, 2022 April 11, 2022 March 14, 2022 February 10, 2022 January 17, 2022 December 20, 2021 November 22, 2021 November 15, 2021 November 1, 2021 September 13, 2021 July 26, 2021 July 12, 2021 June 21, 2021 June 7, 2021 May 17, 2021 May 10, 2021 April 26, 2021 April 12, 2021 March 29, 2021 March 15, 2021
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS SEMINAR
LIST OF PRESENTERS IN THE SUMMER TERM 2025/26
Victoire Girard (Nova School of Business and Economics)
Tobias Hellmundt (Uni Göttingen)
Abdoulaye Cisse (Princeton University)
Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University)
Samuel Siewers (GIGA/Uni Göttingen)
TBA
Emanuel Ornelas (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Siwan Anderson (University of British Columbia)
Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia)
Felix Turbanisch (Uni Göttingen) & Pawandeep Kaur (Uni Göttingen)
Alessandra Gonzáles (Duke University)
Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse School of Economics)
TBA
LIST OF EXTERNAL PRESENTERS IN THE PAST
Joris Mueller (National University of Singapore)
Simon Hess (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Florian Grosset (CREST, ENSAE & Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)
Chris Udry (Northwestern University)
Patrick Premand (World Bank)
Ting Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Mylene Lagarde (LSE)
Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)
Martin Abel (Bowdoin College)
Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute)
Evans Osabuohien (Covenant University)
Erwin Bulte (Wageningen University)
Ann-Sofie Isaksson (University of Gothenburg)
Sandra Polania Reyes (University of Navarra)
Radhika Jain (University College London)
Frederik Noack (University of British Columbia)
Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah (World Bank)
Nicolas Berman (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Anna Adamecz (University College London)
Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford)
Adel Daoud (Linköping University)
Ágnes Szabó Morvai (KRTK KTI/ University of Debrecen)
Juliano Assuncao (PUC Rio)
Kyle Emerick (Tufts University)
Isabel Günther (ETH Zürich)
Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)
Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)
Menusch Khadjavi Pour (VU Amsterdam)
Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago)
Manuel Santos Silva (Fu Berlin)
Aletheia Donald (World Bank)
Travers Barclay Child (CEIBS)
Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)
Clara Brandi (IDOS)
Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University)
Gerhard Riener (University of Southampton)
Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)
Anna Dreber (Stockholm School of Economics)
Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
Jochen Kluve (KfW)
Benjamin Marx (Boston University)
Igor Asanov (University of Kassel)
Christine Binzel (FAU Nürnberg)
Joseph Flavian Gomes (Louvain)
Berk Özler (World Bank)
Kasper Vrolijk (IDOS)
Andreas Freytag (University of Jena)
Jenny Aker (Tufts University)
Ted Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University)
Leah Boustan (Princeton University)
Paul A. Raschky (Monash University)
Guo Xu (University of California, Berkeley)
Alberto Abadie (MIT)
Toman Barsbai (University of Bristol)
Soumya Balasubramanya (World Bank)
David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
Sebastian Jävervall (IfW Kiel)
Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Xavier Gine (World Bank)
Raphael Franck (Hebrew University)
Alexandra Scacco (WZB)
Anke Höffler (Uni Konstanz)
Michael Grimm (Uni Passau)
André Gröger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Sandra Sequeira (LSE)
Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Hans Joachim Voth (Uni Zurich)
Meredith Startz (Dartmouth)
David McKenzie (World Bank)
Pedro Vicente (NOVA SBE)
Joseph Shapiro (UC Berkeley)
Davide Cantoni (LMU)
Bruno Crépon (ENSAE and École Polytechnique)
Dave Donaldson (MIT)
Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University)
Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Christopher Kilby (Villanova University)
Samuel Bazzi (University of California, San Diego)
Veronica Frisancho (Inter-American Development Bank)
Margherita Calderone (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Sascha Becker (Monash University)
Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics)
Joel Stiebale (Düsseldorf University)
Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia)
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University)
Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
Sylvie Lambert (Paris School of Economics)
Douglas Gollin (Oxford University)
