Macro Workshop/FRB Seminar Series, Conferences

Macroeconomics Mini-Conference

Hosts: Paco Buera, Jeremy Majerovitz, and Yongseok Shin

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  • The breakfast and the conference will be in Harry and Susan Seigle Hall (building 166), room 301.
  • Lunch will be held in Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 109.

9 AM - 10 AM
Breakfast, Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 301

10 AM - 11 AM
Joe Kaboski (Notre Dame) - "How Important are Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda"

11 AM - 11:30 AM
Break

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Julia Fonseca (UIUC) - "Financial Inclusion, Economic Development, and Inequality: Evidence from Brazil"

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch, Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 109

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
David Lagakos (Boston University) - "Is the Electricity Sector a Weak Link in Development?"

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Break

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Todd Schoellman (Minneapolis Fed) - "The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development"

4:00 PM
After the conference drinks at The Bear Public House, Charles F. Knight Center