Our next #WEFIDEV seminar is tomorrow, May 18 at 11am EST/5pm CEST and will feature work on disposition effect in 🇨🇳 by Qinling Ouyang from Stockholm University. The full schedule is available at wefidev.com @seankhiggins.bsky.social.

Excited for this week’s #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development! Yao Zeng will present work on the impact of interoperability on #digitalpayments in 🇮🇳 Monday Apr 6 at 11a ET / 5p Central Europe Organized with @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer Nish Vats Nicola Limodio

We are thrilled to share the program of the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-CEPR Conference on #Finance and #Development! seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/2... April 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social Featuring a dual submission with the RFS Thanks to Kellogg Asset Management Practicum, RFS, @cepr.org

Join us today for our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #finance and #development. With @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio Nishant Vats and Kim Fe Cramer Today we are hosting Rebecca De Simone and Nirupama Kulkarni - learn with us about delegated screening and disparities in home loans. See you soon!

In today's #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development we have two exciting papers on remittances by #NicolaLimodio and #IngomarKrohn Join us in a couple of hours, today at 11a US Eastern Time, 5p Central European time!

Our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance & #Development is tomorrow Nov 10 @ 11amET/5pmCET. Excited to have Amineh Mahmoudzadeh talking about Justice in Lending in 🇮🇷 and Paul Brimble on Contagion in Financial Cooperatives in 🇰🇪 Details on the webinar schedule & the 2026 #WEFIDEV workshop at wefidev.com.

One week left to submit to the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development! Dual submission option with RFS Apr 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16: form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm...

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...

Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...

We are hiring pre-doctoral research fellows in the finance department at Kellogg @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social at Northwestern University Apply here: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Priority deadline Oct 31 cc @nber.org @econthaki.bsky.social #econ_ra #predoc

📢JOB OPPORTUNITY📢 I am hiring a part-time or full-time research assistant in Mexico City 🇲🇽 For a project with #PierreBachas #AndersJensen to understand the impacts of a tax on firms' cash deposits at banks seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/I... #EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social

Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...

The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall! We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)

This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...

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We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)

Malengo@malengo.org · last yr.

📣 📣 Applications are now OPEN for Malengo's Uganda–Germany University Program! Apply by August 16th, 2025!

Really interesting conference happening in #Chile in January on Promoting Financial Inclusion and Innovation in Latin America! Jointly hosted by @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and @cega-uc.bsky.social 8 days left to apply Submit: lnkd.in/g_eS2cuy

It was a delight giving a keynote on "Payment Systems and Financial Inclusion" at the Federal Reserve System Payments Researchers Annual Meeting My slides: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/h... Based on www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... + a discussion of fast payments in emerging markets at the end

Very exciting that Review of Finance recognizes the importance of research on the future of payments and will have a special issue on this topic! revfin.org/special-issu...

Join us for our final #WEFIDEV Spring webinar in #Finance and #Development that takes place today at 11am ET/5pm CET. Cameron LaPoint and Smit Gade will present their work! And check www.wefidev.com for important upcoming news! With @seankhiggins.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer and Nicola Limodio

It was fantastic talking to @usatoday.com about how households can prepare for a recession If you're considering building up a savings buffer for a recession, but also have substantial credit card debt, it makes more financial sense to pay down debt than to save www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Join us on Monday 11am ET / 5pm Europe for our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance & #Development. We have exciting presentations by Will Cong and Robert Hsu Rocha on #Fintech and credit allocation! Interested? sign up at www.wefidev.com Kim Fe Cramer @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio

@loribeaman.bsky.social kicking off our annual Northwestern Development Economics Rookiefest where this year’s job market candidates in development from across universities present their JMPs!

Thanks everyone for a fantastic #WEFIDEV #Conference on #Finance and #Development at LSE. This was the first of three dual submission conferences with the RFS, so join us in the future! To learn more, check out our website: www.wefidev.com Thread on papers below ⬇️

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2025 #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org Conference kicks off with Chhavi Rastogi presenting on investment along the supply chain in #India 🇮🇳

Day 2 of the #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development starts with Silvia Prina on rehabilitating delinquent digital borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa

The 2025 #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org Conference kicks off with Chhavi Rastogi presenting on investment along the supply chain in #India 🇮🇳

📢Job opportunity📢 We're hiring a full-time RA for a project with Chile's financial regulator on the effect of loan price comparison tools Spanish & #Rstats needed Details and apply: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/2... cc #EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @econthaki.bsky.social

Small businesses don’t always take advantage of simple opportunities to improve their bottom line. Why not? @kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social) insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!

Why Small Firms Take a Pass on Profitable Opportunities

And how they can be encouraged to buy in.

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Our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance and #Development is back! We are meeting on April 14, 28, and May 12, with great speakers. Have a look at our program & sign up for our mailing list: www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-... Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio

WEFIDEV - SPRING 2025 WEBINAR SCHEDULE

Seminars take place the second and fourth Monday of every month at 5pm Central European Time / 11 am Eastern Time on Zoom.

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We are thrilled to share the program for the WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development, with an RFS dual submission! Thanks everyone for contributing. See you in March at LSE! Organized w @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social, Kim Fe Cramer, Nicola Limodio www.wefidev.com/2025-confere...

WEFIDEV - 2025 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Firms often fail to adopt profitable opportunities. Working with a FinTech to randomize offers to 33,978 firms in Mexico and show the role of behavioral biases such as memory and trust, from Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, Ulrike Malmendier, and Waldo Ojeda https://www.nber.org/papers/w33387

🚨 Ten days left to apply 🚨 I am looking for an experienced research manager to join me at Oxford, starting as early as 1 March. Help set up a new research group for macro-experimental development. A highly impactful role for both research and policy! economics.web.ox.ac.uk/research-man...

The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)

Submission: Organizational Economics Working Group, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research

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