VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars is an online seminar series, featuring invited speakers in the area of Development Economics. It was set up in the spring semester of 2020 as the VDEV seminar and is now organised jointly by the group of researchers below, CEPR and BREAD. The seminars are held on Zoom and consist of a 45-minute presentation, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. A moderator collects questions on the chat and selects a few of general interest to be asked to the speaker at reasonable intervals to keep the flow of the seminar. All participants are muted, and interactions with the speaker are through the chat with the moderator. In the Q&A portion the moderator opens the microphone up to those participants who have indicated they have a question in the chat with the moderator.
The fall Spring 2024 sessions of the Virtual Development Economics Series will start on the 26th of March and will take place virtually, bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 16:00 (London time) until the 4th of June. The seminars will run for 45 minutes with 15 minutes for further discussion.
Organisers:
- Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics, Misum, BREAD and CEPR)
- Giacomo De Giorgi (IEE/GSEM, University of Geneva, BREAD and CEPR)
- Garance Genicot (Georgetown University, BREAD and CEPR)
- Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard, BREAD and CEPR)
- Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), IPEG, BREAD and CEPR)
- Karen Macours (PSE, INRAE, BREAD and CEPR)
- Anthony Wambugu (University of Nairobi)
Spring 2024 Programme:
- VDEV 49 - 26 March 2024: Anthony Wambugu Ndirangu (University of Nairobi)
- VDEV 44 - 9 April 2024: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick University and CEPR)
- VDEV 45 - 23 April 2024: Garance Genicot (Georgetown University and CEPR)
- VDEV 46 - 7 May 2024: Kaivan Munshi (Yale University)
- VDEV 47 - 21 May 2024: Lucia Corno (Cattolica University and CEPR)
- VDEV 48 - 4 June 2024: Orazio Attanasio (Yale University and CEPR)