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Joint BREAD/Minneapolis Fed Conference on Finance and Development Minneapolis Fed, October 5-6, 2012
Sponsored by: The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and Hewlett Foundation.
Conference location: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 90 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conference Program
Friday, October 5th
2:00-2:10 p.m.
Welcoming remarks
2:10-3:25 p.m.
A. Mushfiq Mobarak and Mark Rosenzweig
Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally
Insured
3:25-4:40 p.m.
Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Cynthia Kinnan, and Horacio
Larreguy
Informal Insurance, Social Networks, and
Savings Access: Evidence from a Framed Field
Experiment
4:40-5:10 p.m.
coffee break
5:10-6:25 p.m.
Jing Cai
Social Networks and the Decision to Insure:
Evidence from Randomized Experiments in China
6:30 p.m.
conference dinner
Saturday, October 6th
8:00-8:30 a.m.
continental breakfast
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee,
Alberto Motta and Sujata Visaria
Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to
Microfinance
9:45-11:00 a.m.
Christian Ahlin and Brian Waters
Dynamic lending under adverse selection with
limited borrower commitment: Can it outperform
group lending?
11:00-11:15 a.m.
coffee break
11:15-12:30 p.m.
Brian Greaney, Joseph P. Kaboski, and Eva Van
Leemput
Can You Teach a Person to Fish? Evidence From
a Microfinance Privatisation Experiment
12:30-1:30 p.m.
lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Anant Nyshadham
Learning about Comparative Advantage in
Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand
2:45-4:00 p.m.
Samuel Bazzi
Wealth Heterogeneity, Income Shocks, and
International Migration: Theory and Evidence
from Indonesia
CALL FOR PAPERS: joint BREAD-MINNEAPOLIS FED CONFERENCE on Finance and Development, October 5-6 2012
The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
and the Minneapolis Fed are pleased to announce a joint conference on
Finance and Development, to be hosted by the Minneapolis Fed on
October 5-6, 2012.
You are invited to submit a paper for the conference. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2012. Submissions are encouraged on all
topics related to finance and development, broadly defined.
Please submit your papers at :
http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/conferences/submit
The scientific committee for this conference comprises Francisco
Buera, Chiang-Tai Hsieh, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Robert Townsend. All
papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open
submission process. Please note that there will be time for only a
very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day
and a half, there are no parallel sessions, and ample time is allowed
for discussion of the research during the presentations. Travel and
hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper presented in
the conference.
The program will be announced around July 15.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email
BREAD@duke.edu
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