Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
Prof @NorthwesternU @KelloggSchool Finance. I study how technology reduces frictions in payments markets and consumer financial markets
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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
Apply here: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Priority deadline Oct 31
cc @nber.org @econthaki.bsky.social #econ_ra #predoc
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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.
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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...
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...
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📢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
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
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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...
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...
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)
This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...
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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 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...
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Johannes Haushofer
@johanneshaushofer.com
· Jul 24
📣 📣 Applications are now OPEN for Malengo's Uganda–Germany University Program! Apply by August 16th, 2025!
We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Jul 23
LinkedIn
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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
Jointly hosted by @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and @cega-uc.bsky.social
8 days left to apply
Submit: lnkd.in/g_eS2cuy
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Jul 10
seankhiggins.com
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
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
Special Issue: Call for Proposals on the Future of Payments—CBDC, Digital Assets and Digital Capital Markets - Review of Finance
Organisers: CEPR, European Central Bank, Review of Finance and Bocconi University (local host). Guest Editors Elena Carletti, Dirk Niepelt, Marcus M. Opp (Sponsoring RoF Editor), Claudio Tebaldi.
D...
revfin.org
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...
revfin.org/special-issu...
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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
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 30
Are we going into a recession? Why it's not too late to prepare.
Recession fears are rising under President Trump's new campaign of tariffs. There is still time to prepare your finances.
www.usatoday.com
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/...
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/...
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 30
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/...
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/...
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 25
wefidev.com
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
Interested? sign up at www.wefidev.com
Kim Fe Cramer @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 17
And to wrap up a day of very interesting papers, Luisa Cefalà on knowledge hoarding and its implications for technology diffusion in #Burundi 🇧🇮
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 17
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 🇺🇬
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Next: Oluchi Mbonu (from @harvard.edu headed to World Bank) on market segmentation in the minibus sector in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Next: Javier Feinmann (from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social headed to @pse.bsky.social) on wage payments under the table to formal-sector employees in #Brazil 🇧🇷
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Next: Tishara Garg (from MIT headed to @stanford.edu) on industrial policy and coordination failures in #India 🇮🇳
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 17
First up: Dev Patel (from @harvard.edu heading to @brown.edu) on environmental beliefs, adaptation to #ClimateChange, and farmer profits in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Apr 17
@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 of the #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development starts with Silvia Prina on rehabilitating delinquent digital borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Mar 29
And to close out the conference, @akjain.bsky.social on the use of informal loans to bridge rigid, short-maturity formal loans in #Thailand 🇹🇭
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Next @vaishnavisur.bsky.social on the use of formal bank credit by informal money lenders in #India 🇮🇳
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Next Matheus Sampaio on effect of digital payments on the adoption and use of other payment technologies in #Brazil 🇧🇷
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Next Manju Puri on digital payments, open banking, and access to credit in #India 🇮🇳
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Next @muhammadmeki.bsky.social comparing debt and equity-like financing for a productive asset for micro-distributors in #Kenya 🇰🇪
Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Day 2 of the #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development starts with Silvia Prina on rehabilitating delinquent digital borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa