Events
The Eats & Economics lunch series will continue into the winter quarter. Please check back for updates on workshops to be held in early 2010.
The Enterprise Initiative hosted "Survey Design and Measurement in Development Economics", a conference held at the World Bank in Washington D.C. on December 10-11, 2009. This event aimed to create a systematic body of knowledge pertaining to measurement and survey design, particularly as it relates to enterprise and development economics. Details on the conference, including papers discussed, can be found at http://econ.worldbank.org/conferences/surveydesign.
"Innovations in Development Theory & Survey Data: Implications for Policy", a conference hosted by the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce and the Enterprise Initiative, was held in Bangkok, Thailand from August 4-6, 2008. For more information on the speakers and events that took place, please visit http://cier.uchicago.edu/conference/index.html.
The Enterprise Initiative held a lunch series focusing on current research in the area of development economics. "Eats & Economics" was held biweekly throughout 2009, and highlighted enterprise-focused research by both professors and students.
January 20: John Felker & Kamilya Tazhibayeva, "Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand"
February 3: Tiberiu Stef-Praun of the Computation Institute, "Computational Tools for Economic Research"
February 24: Pierre Andre Chiappori, Economics Professor at Columbia University, "Sharing Wage Risk"
March 3: Jorge O. Moreno, Economics Ph.D. Candidate, "Matching, Hedonic Equilibrium Contracts, and the Structure of Credit Market: Evidence from the Mexican Banking System"
March 31: Benjamin Moll, Economics Ph.D. Candidate, "Wealth Inequality and Capital Misallocation in Developing Countries"
April 14: Victor Zhorin of the Computation Institute, "Hierarchical Estimation of Structural Models with Endogenous Interactions"
April 28: Anna Paulson, Senior Financial Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Bank Crises and Investor Confidence"
May 12: Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago Economics Professor, Technological Innovation & The Transactions Demand for Cash"
May 26: Anan "Lek" Pawasutipaisit, Post-Doctoral Scholar at MIT, "Wealth Accumulation and Factors Accounting for Success"
October 13: Luke Harriman and Jorge Moreno, "Evaluating the Role of Microfinance Institutions in Mexico"
October 27: Victor Zhorin, Computational Scientist, "Financial Deepening: From theory to quantitative estimation for Mexico, 1989-2006"
November 3: Adriana de la Huerta, PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago, "Microfinance in Rural and Urban Thailand: Policies, Social Ties, and Successful Performance"
November 10: Weerachart "Tee" Kilenthong, Professor at University of California Santa Barbara, "Information-Constrainted Optima with Retrading: An Externality and Its Market-Based Solution"