Workshop: Finance and Development
| From: | Th 08-05-2025 |
| Until: | Fr 09-05-2025 |
| Where: | House of Connections, Grote Markt 21 |
Financial systems are developing rapidly around the global South. These developments increase the need for research into their effects,especially regarding issues of financial inclusion. To this end the Faculty of Economics and Business (theme: Sustainability and Future Prosperity) and the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development of the University Groningen will host the seventh annual workshop “Finance and Development” in Groningen, The Netherlands, on May 8 and May 9, 2025. The workshop is co-organised by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and the Cluster of Research Excellence in Inequalities, Poverty and Deprivation (Core-IPD).
The keynote speaker is Jonathan Morduch (NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service).
We invite submissions for papers focusing on financial decision-making in developing countries. This year’s workshop will specifically highlight research related to Africa. Topics of particular interest include:
● Household and SME finance
● Financial inclusion of households and enterprises
● Microfinance, banks, and non-bank financial intermediaries
● Political economy aspects of the financial sector
Papers will be selected by the program committee members Thorsten Beck (European University Institute), Xavier Giné (World Bank), Stefan Klonner (Heidelberg University), Robert Lensink (Groningen University), Lukas Menkhoff (Kiel Institute), Ugo Panizza (Graduate Institute Geneva), and Lore Vandewalle (KU Leuven). Support for travel and accommodation expenses for presenters may be provided upon request, subject to availability.
Please send full papers together with a binding nomination of the presenter to core-ipd rug.nl by February 7, 2025. Selection decisions will be communicated by March 5. For inquiries, please contact Astrid Bakker at the same e-mail address.
Register for the workshop here: https://forms.gle/FB55eNCiYrfRJAda8
Workshop Programme
|
Schedule |
Presenter/Chair |
Title |
Discussant |
|
May 8 |
Chair (before lunch): Robert Lensink | ||
|
10.30-11.00 |
Coffee/Welcome |
Coffee/Welcome | |
|
11.00-12.00 |
Mark Treurniet (RUG) |
Cultural agency models and intervention effectiveness: Theory and experimental impacts of an empowerment training |
Lore Vandewalle (KU Leuven) |
|
12.00-13.00 |
Lunch |
Lunch | |
|
May 8 |
Chair (after lunch): Lukas Menkhoff | ||
|
13.00-14.00 |
Sandrine Kablan (UPEC) |
Bank stability, bank business model and the financial resource curse |
Asad Rauf (RUG) |
|
14.00-15.00 |
Tulio Bouzas |
Tax Compliance and Payment Methods |
Stefan Klonner |
|
15.00-15.15 |
Coffee |
Coffee | |
|
15.15-16.15 |
Arnaud Schuele |
How do Impact Investors Compare to Traditional Funders? Insights from Africa |
Sandrine Kablan |
|
16.15-17.30 |
Jonathan Morduch |
Keynote: A Theory of Financial Inclusion |
Robert Lensink |
|
18.00--- |
Diner |
Diner | |
|
May 9 |
Chair (before lunch): Lore Vandewalle | ||
|
8.30-9.00 |
Coffee |
Coffee | |
|
9.00-10.00 |
Lukas Menkhoff |
Scaling financial intermediation among micro entrepreneurs: A randomized saturation experiment |
Kristina Czura |
|
10.00-11.00 |
Mohamed Abouaziza |
The Supply Side of Access to Finance: Evidence from Loans to Agricultural Firms in Four African Countries |
Lukas Menkhoff |
|
11.00-11.15 |
Coffee |
Coffee | |
|
11.15-12.15 |
Daniel van Hemert |
Navigating uncertainty: informal financial institutions in conflict zones |
Kritika Saxena |
|
12.15-13.15 |
Lunch |
Lunch | |
|
May 9 |
Chair (after lunch) Stefan Klonner | ||
|
13.15-14.15 |
Lisa Spantig |
The effects of information sharing on moral hazard in credit markets: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in the Philippines* |
Calumn Hamilton |
|
14.15-14.30 |
Coffee |
Coffee | |
|
14.30-15.30 |
Miri Stryjan |
The Anatomy of Collective Decision making -- Voice and Choice in a Public Goods Game in Malawi |
Annika Mueller |
|
15.30-16.30 |
Mikael Paaso |
Cross-Product Spillovers in Attitudes Towards Finance |
Anna Minasyan |
|
18.00----- |
Diner (own cost) | ||
