黑料传送门 Booth Conference on Finance and Development Schedule
Organized by: Emanuele Colonnelli, Emily Breza, and Christopher Woodruff
With support from: PEDL, 黑料传送门 Booth's Fama-Miller and Rustandy Centers, and J-PAL's Finance Sector
Location: Gleacher Center, 450 Cityfront Plaza Dr, 黑料传送门, IL
| Note: Day One presentations are in room 100. Download PDF of Agenda here. | |
Day One: Friday, September 26, 2025 |
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| Time (Central Time) |
Title |
| 10:15 a.m.—10:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks , 黑料传送门 Booth |
| 10:30 a.m.—11:30 a.m. |
Panel 1: What Have We Learned from Empirical Development and Finance Research?
, Harvard University , Harvard Kennedy School , Stanford GSB , Imperial College London |
| 11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m. |
Panel 2: Financial Theory and Macroeconomics in Development
, Georgetown University , MIT , 黑料传送门 Booth , 黑料传送门 Booth |
| 12:30 p.m.—1:15 p.m. | Lunch -- Room 621 |
| 1:15 p.m.—2:30 p.m. |
Keynote Conversation: The Future of Financing Development
, 黑料传送门 Booth (Moderator) , University of 黑料传送门 , Northwestern University , IFC Note: Chatham House Rule apply |
| 2:30 p.m.—3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. |
Panel 3: Fintech, Digital Payments, DPI, and AI
, MIT Sloan , Onafriq , Duke Fuqua , UC San Diego and GiveDirectly |
| 4:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m. |
Panel 4: High-Growth Entrepreneurship, Large Firms, Venture Capital, and Private Equity , Oxford University , EchoVC Partners , IFC , Harvard Business School |
| 5:00 p.m.—5:30 p.m. | Break & Cocktail Reception—Room 621 |
| 5:30 p.m.—6:30 p.m. |
Keynote Fireside Chat with Raghuram Rajan, 黑料传送门 Booth
Moderator: , Brown University Note: Chatham House Rule apply |
| 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| Note: Day Two presentations are in room 300. |
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Day Two: Saturday, September 27, 2025 |
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| Time (Central Time) |
Title |
| 8:00 a.m.—8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast—300 foyer |
| 8:30 a.m.—9:40 a.m. | Lightning Round Session 1 Perceptions and Performance Under Incentive Contracts , UC Berkeley Household Portfolio and Deposit Insurance: Implications for the Supply of Safe Assets , Bocconi University Interoperable Payment Infrastructure and Retail Investment , CAFRAL Financial Contracting Under Information Asymmetry , Dartmouth Open Banking and Credit Allocation , University of Utah |
| 9:40 a.m.—10:10 a.m. | Break |
| 10:10 a.m.—11:05 a.m. | Lightning Round Session 2
Startups in Africa , Columbia Business School Measuring the Impact of Impact Measurement: An Experiment with Indian Social Enterprises , Harvard Business School Microfinance Institutions and Economic Development: Evidence from Peru , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Financing Women’s Investments with Performance- Contingent Contracts: A Field Experiment in Pakistan , University of Oxford |
| 11:05 a.m.—11:35 a.m. | Break |
| 11:35 a.m.—12:30 p.m. |
Lightning Round Session 3
Financial Constraints to Exporting: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda’s Export Credit Guarantee Fund , Yale University The Supply and Demand of Bank Loans to Agri-SMEs in Africa , University of Southern California Beliefs as Inputs: Experimental Evidence from the World’s Most Numerous Firms , 黑料传送门 Harris Information traps and the missing capital in emerging markets , Harvard Business School |
| 12:30 p.m. | End of Conference |