Lunch Lecture Series (12:00 Noon – 1:15pm)

SCID invites a variety of guest speakers to address economic issues in developing countries. These lunch lectures are held in Conference Room A of the Landau Economics Building. All interested faculty and graduate students of the Economics Department are invited to attend.

Academic Year 2006-2007 Lectures:

Winter Quarter

January 9 , 2007
"Manufacturing Productivity and Management" by Nicholas Bloom, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University. Slides in Power Point

January 18 , 2007
"Social Policy, Productivity, and Growth"" Santiago Levy (Biography - pdf ), former General Director of the Mexican Institute for Social Security

January 23 , 2007
"Misallocation and Manufacturing Efficiency in China and India" by Peter Klenow, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

February 13 , 2007
"The Economics of Public-Private Partnerships" by Eduardo M. Engel, Professor of Economics Yale University

February 16 , 2007
"Financial Stability in India" by Charan Singh, Director, Banking Development, Department of Economic Analysis and Policy, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai

Autumn Quarter

October 10 , 2006
"Exploring the Links Between Inequlaity and Low Growth in Mexico" by Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Professor of Economics, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus. Slides in PDF

October 24, 2006
"Building A Resource Efficient Society in China?  Petroleum Use in Transportation" by James L. Sweeney, Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University.

November 14, 2006
"Household Income Inequality and Mobility in China vs. the United States" by Niny Khor, Doctoral Candidate, Economics Department, Stanford University.

November 21, 2006
"What We Know Today About China's Economic Growth Tomorrow: China's Economic Growth Through 2025 and It's Implications" by Carston Holz,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Paper(pdf), Appendices(pdf)

November 28, 2006
"What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? And Why Does It Matter for the Doha Round?"" by Robert Staiger, Professor of Economics, Stanford University.

Academic Year 2005-2006 Lectures:

Spring Quarter

April 11, 2006
"Free Trade Agreements - An Economic Policy tool for Singapore in a Globalized World" by Teo Ming Kian, Executive Chairman of the Economic Development Board, Singapore. Slides in PDF (2.7 MB file)

April 25, 2006
"Are There Really Human Costs to Economic Volatility?" by Grant Miller, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University.

May 16, 2006
"Local Accountability and Public Goods Provision in Mexico" by Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.

May 23, 2006
"Current Status of the Doha Round" by T.N. Srinivasan, Professor of Economics, Yale University.

Winter Quarter

January 17 , 2006
"China’s 11th Five-year Plan and Future Economic Development" by Justin Lin, Director of the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University. Slides in PDF

January 24 , 2006
"International Tax Competition and Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment  Flows" by Assaf Razin, Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Cornell University and Visiting Scholar at SCID.

February 7 , 2006
"Are Euro Zone Stability and Enlargement Compatible?” by Caio Koch-Weser, Former State Secretary, German Ministry of Finance.

February 28, 2006
"Regionalizing Telecommunications Reform in West Africa" by Roger Noll, Director of SCID and Professor of Economics, Stanford University.

Autumn Quarter

November 29, 2005
"The Effect of Financial Crises on Emerging Market Access to Foreign Capital" by Galina Hale, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University and Visiting Scholar at SCID

November 8, 2005
"Do the Poor Pay More?" by Orazio Attansio, Professor of Economics, University College London and Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University

October 18, 2005
"Financial Sector Reforms in India: Challenges Ahead" by Narendra Jadhav, Principal Adviser and Chief Economist, Reserve Bank of India

October 11, 2005
"Should India Use foreign Exchange Reserves to Finance Infrastructure?" by Charan Singh, Visiting Researcher at SCID

Academic Year 2004-2005 Lectures:

May 17, 2005
"(East) Germany Quo Vadis? Reform Challenges after Unification" by Christina Gathmann, PostDoc at the Economics Dept of Stanford University and SCID Visiting Researcher

May 10, 2005
"Exchange Rate versus Wage Changes in International Adjustment? Japan and China versus the United States" by Ronald McKinnon, Professor of Economics, Stanford University (Feature on International Money)

April 26, 2005
"Institutional Incenstives and Property Rights Transformation in China" by Xiaobo Hu , National Fellow at Hoover Institution (2004-2005) and Associate Professor of Political Science at Clemson University

April 12, 2005
"Public Debt in India: the Need to Separate Debt from Monetary Management" (SCID Working Paper No. 240) by Charan Singh, SCID Visiting Scholar and Director of Department of Economic Analysis and Policy, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai

March 1, 2005
"Did Argentina's Financial Crisis Impact Household Schooling Choices?" by Sri Nagavarapu, PhD Candidate, Economics Department, Stanford University

February 15, 2005
"Can Indian Parents Be Trusted to Immunize Their Children?" by Aprajit Mahajan, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Stanford University

January 25, 2005
"Latin America: Two Types of Regional Integration Agreements" by Armando Di Filippo, Tinker Visiting Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University

January 11, 2005
"What Is Worrying China?" by Nick Hope (C.V.), SCID Deputy Director, Stanford University

November 30, 2004
"Financial Sector Reforms and State of Indian Economy" by Charan Singh (C.V.), SCID Visiting Scholar and Director (Research) of Internal Debt Management, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai

November 16, 2004
"Haircuts" by Federico Sturzenegger (C.V.), Dean of Business School, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina, and Former Secretary of Economic Policy in Argentina [presentation in PowerPoint]

October 26, 2004
"The Economic Policy Reform of Turkey" by Ajay Chhibber (C.V.), Director, Operations Evaluation Department at the World Bank and former Country Director for Turkey from 1997-2003

October 5, 2004
"Institutionalising Regulatory Improvement : The Mexican Experience (1989-2004)" by Fernando J. Salas Vargas (C.V.) , Founder of Soles Consulting (Mexico), Former Founding Commissioner of the Federal Commission for Regulatory Improvement in the Zedillo Administration, and Former Staff Member, Council of Economic Advisors, in the De La Madrid Administration

Academic Year 2003-2004 Lectures:

July 22, 2004
"Global Outsourcing and FDI: Can the Countries in SSA Participate in the Process?" by David Bigman, Professor of Global Food Security and International Trade of Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and SCID Visiting Scholar

May 25, 2004
"Targeted Programs for Poverty Reduction: an Analysis of India's Public Distribution System" by Anjini Kochar, Researcher and India Program Coordinator at SCID

May 11, 2004:
"Who's Afraid of the Resource Curse?" by Gavin Wright, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at SIEPR

April 27, 2004:
"Financial Crisis and Restructuring: the Korean Experience and Its Lessons for Japan" by Jeong-Yeon Lee, Visiting Researcher at SCID

April 13, 2004:
"Has Japan's Slump Finally Ended?" (pdf) by Robert Madsen, Fellow at Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

March 9, 2004:
"Institutional Economics and Development"(pdf), (presentation), by Mary Shirley, Research Manager for Competition Policy and Regulation in the Development Research Group at the World Bank and President of the Ronald Coase Institute

March 2, 2004:
"The Politics of Risk and Uncertainty in Economic Development" (Chapters 1 and 11 and Table of Contents) (pdf), by Hilton Root, Senior Fellow at Milken Institute and Professor of Economics at Pitzer College

February 24, 2004:
"Does Financial Globalization Induce Governments to Pursue Better Macroeconomic Policies?" by Shang-Jin Wei, Advisor and Head of Trade Unit, Research Dept., International Monetary Fund and Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, and Director of NBER Working Group on the Chinese Economy

February 10, 2004:
"Governance and Structured Reforms in Chile: 1984-2004", by Jorge Marshall, Economist, Former Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Chile and Former Minister of Economy of Chile

January 27, 2004:
"Switching from Float to Peg: Nuanced View", by Assaf Razin, Professor of Economics, Tele Aviv and Cornell Universities

January 13, 2004:
"Inequality, Democracy and Institutions " by Mark Gradstein, Professor of Economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & SCID Visiting Researcher

November 25, 2003:
"How Does the Trade Regime Affect International Trade?" (pdf) by
Judy Goldstein, SCID Senior Fellow (topic to be announced)
Douglas Rivers, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution
Michael Tomz, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

November 11, 2003:
"Some Simple Analytics of School Quality" (pdf) by Eric Hanushek, C.V. Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution and SCID

October 28, 2003:
"Legal Reform, Externalities and Economic Development: Measuring the Impact of Legal Aid on Poor Women in Ecuador" (pdf) by Bruce Owens, SIEPR Visiting Faculty Member C.V. (pdf) Abstract (pdf)

October 14, 2003:
"Vulnerability" by Ethan Ligon, C.V. (pdf)

Academic Year 2002-2003 Lectures:

June 3, 2003:
"India: The Next Five Years" (pdf) by N.K. Singh, C.V. (pdf), Member of Planning Commission, Government of India

May 13, 2003:
"Capital Account Liberalization, The Cost of Capital, and Economic Growth" (pdf) by Peter Henry, C.V. (pdf), Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University

April 29, 2003:
"How Does Foreign Direct Investment Boost Productivity in Less-Developed Countries?" by Maurice Kugler, Visiting Researcher at SCID

April 15, 2003:
"What Can Modern Post-Conflict Economies Tell Us about a Post-Conflict Iraq?" Power Point Presentation (ppt) by Lisa Cook, National Fellow, Hoover Institution C.V. (pdf)

March 4, 2003:
"Schooling Decisions by Mexican Families with Access to U.S. Labor Markets" by Grecia Marrufo, Visiting Researcher Fellow at SCID

February 18, 2003:
"Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality" by Ernesto Schargrodsky (pdf), Visiting Researcher at SCID
Abstract of Ernesto’s presentation

February 4, 2003:
“International Intellectual Property Rules for Developing Countries” by John Barton, Professor of Law at Stanford

January 21, 2003:
“Foreign Direct Investment Flows into Emerging Markets: Competition, Transparency and Growth” by Assaf Razin, Research Fellow at SCID

November 26, 2002:
“Borders and Growth” by Romain Wacziarg, Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Paper can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/~wacziarg/papersum.html

November 19, 2002:
“The Brazilian Financial Crisis and the Challenges Facing the New Administration” by Marcio Garcia, Visiting Associate Professor, SCID