Twenty-Second BREAD Conference
Joint BREAD/Minneapolis Fed Conference on Finance and Development
Minneapolis Fed, October 5-6, 2012
Sponsored by: The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and Hewlett Foundation.
Conference location: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 90 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conference Program
Friday, October 5th
2:00-2:10 p.m.
Welcoming remarks
2:10-3:25 p.m.
A. Mushfiq Mobarak and Mark Rosenzweig
Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
3:25-4:40 p.m.
Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Cynthia Kinnan, and Horacio Larreguy
Informal Insurance, Social Networks, and Savings Access: Evidence from a Framed
Field Experiment
4:40-5:10 p.m.
coffee break
5:10-6:25 p.m.
Jing Cai
Social Networks and the Decision to Insure: Evidence from Randomized Experiments
in China
6:30 p.m.
conference dinner
Saturday, October 6th
8:00-8:30 a.m.
continental breakfast
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Sujata Visaria
Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance
9:45-11:00 a.m.
Christian Ahlin and Brian Waters
Dynamic lending under adverse selection with limited borrower commitment: Can it
outperform group lending?
11:00-11:15 a.m.
coffee break
11:15-12:30 p.m.
Brian Greaney, Joseph P. Kaboski, and Eva Van Leemput
Can You Teach a Person to Fish? Evidence From a Microfinance Privatisation
Experiment
12:30-1:30 p.m.
lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Anant Nyshadham
Learning about Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand
2:45-4:00 p.m.
Samuel Bazzi
Wealth Heterogeneity, Income Shocks, and International Migration: Theory and
Evidence from Indonesia
CALL FOR PAPERS: joint BREAD-MINNEAPOLIS FED CONFERENCE on Finance and Development, October 5-6 2012
The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Minneapolis Fed are pleased to announce a joint conference on Finance and Development, to be hosted by the Minneapolis Fed on October 5-6, 2012.
You are invited to submit a paper for the conference. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2012. Submissions are encouraged on all topics related to finance and development, broadly defined.
Please submit your papers at :
http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/conferences/submit
The scientific committee for this conference comprises Francisco Buera, Chiang-Tai Hsieh, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Robert Townsend. All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submission process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half, there are no parallel sessions, and ample time is allowed for discussion of the research during the presentations. Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper presented in the conference.
The program will be announced around July 15.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email
BREAD@duke.edu
| Scientific committee members click here |
