The BSE Development Economics Summer School explores some of the most recent and exciting work in the field of economic development. Both theoretical and empirical aspects will be covered, with a precise focus on policy that improves economic well-being in poor and developing countries. The...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

This workshop focuses on the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions, such as adjustment costs, informational rigidities, search and matching frictions, costly reallocation, irreversibility, taxation, among others. Topics of particular interest include price and wage setting, capital...

The workshop aims to bring together research that analyzes several aspects of insurance against individual risk from a macroeconomic perspective. These aspects cover forms of (1) mutual insurance either from formal institutions (e.g general tax/transfer system, the pension system, unemployment...

The workshop is jointly organized by the BSE and MOVE. The goal of the workshop is to bring together, as in previous editions, leading researchers in the estimation of structural microeconometric models on different topics (labor, IO, development…). Submissions from well-established...

This workshop aims at being a showcase of recent outstanding contributions in the broad literature on development economics. The workshop aims to create an annual meeting of top researchers in this field in the framework of the BSE Summer Forum. Both empirical and theoretical contributions will...

This workshop aims at discussing research on the frontier of macro labor economics. We encourage theoretical and empirical submissions from all macro labor areas, including, but not limited to, discrimination in the labor market, search and matching, interactions between family and the labor...

How does market power affect labor market outcomes? This workshop invites papers on market power in the goods market and monopsony power in the labor market, with particular emphasis on the macroeconomic implications. Work on the intersection of macro/labor and IO and both theoretical and...

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

We invite contributions (papers and presentations of projects) that provide solutions to the following challenges and questions: - Most people in developing countries are dependent on the agricultural and informal sectors. We question whether employment creation should concentrate on these...