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
This is our 5th annual conference, coorganized with @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio and Kim Fe Cramer
Reach out if interested in attending!
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...
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...
We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)
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
This is because interest rates on the credit card debt are typically much higher than interest rates on savings
Then, if hit with a shock such as job loss during a recession, can always tap into the credit card line again (after having paid some of it off)
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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
And to wrap up a day of very interesting papers, Luisa Cefalà on knowledge hoarding and its implications for technology diffusion in #Burundi 🇧🇮
Next: Jeanne Sorin Le Guevel (from UChicago headed to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @goldmanschool.bsky.social) on building public infrastructure (roads) on private land in #Uganda 🇺🇬
Next: Oluchi Mbonu (from @harvard.edu headed to World Bank) on market segmentation in the minibus sector in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦
Next: Javier Feinmann (from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social headed to @pse.bsky.social) on wage payments under the table to formal-sector employees in #Brazil 🇧🇷
Next: Tishara Garg (from MIT headed to @stanford.edu) on industrial policy and coordination failures in #India 🇮🇳
First up: Dev Patel (from @harvard.edu heading to @brown.edu) on environmental beliefs, adaptation to #ClimateChange, and farmer profits in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩
@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!
Day 2: bsky.app/profile/sean...
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 ⬇️
And to close out the conference, @akjain.bsky.social on the use of informal loans to bridge rigid, short-maturity formal loans in #Thailand 🇹🇭