Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
Prof @NorthwesternU @KelloggSchool Finance. I study how technology reduces frictions in payments markets and consumer financial markets
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...
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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...
And to wrap up a day of very interesting papers, Luisa Cefalà on knowledge hoarding and its implications for technology diffusion in #Burundi 🇧🇮
April 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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 🇺🇬
April 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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 🇿🇦
April 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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 🇧🇷
April 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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 🇮🇳
April 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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 🇧🇩
April 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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!
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
@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!
And to close out the conference, @akjain.bsky.social on the use of informal loans to bridge rigid, short-maturity formal loans in #Thailand 🇹🇭
March 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And to close out the conference, @akjain.bsky.social on the use of informal loans to bridge rigid, short-maturity formal loans in #Thailand 🇹🇭
Next @vaishnavisur.bsky.social on the use of formal bank credit by informal money lenders in #India 🇮🇳
March 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Next @vaishnavisur.bsky.social on the use of formal bank credit by informal money lenders in #India 🇮🇳
March 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Next @muhammadmeki.bsky.social comparing debt and equity-like financing for a productive asset for micro-distributors in #Kenya 🇰🇪
March 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Next @muhammadmeki.bsky.social comparing debt and equity-like financing for a productive asset for micro-distributors in #Kenya 🇰🇪
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
March 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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
And to wrap the day, a session featuring projects on financing agricultural SMEs funded by @theigc.bsky.social & Aceli Africa
March 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And to wrap the day, a session featuring projects on financing agricultural SMEs funded by @theigc.bsky.social & Aceli Africa
March 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Now Tarun Ramadorai giving a keynote on asset value underreporting and optimal tax policy in Mumbai 🇮🇳
March 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Now Tarun Ramadorai giving a keynote on asset value underreporting and optimal tax policy in Mumbai 🇮🇳
Next @ralphdehaas.bsky.social on violent conflict and cross-border lending
March 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Next @ralphdehaas.bsky.social on violent conflict and cross-border lending
Next @amanda-ds.bsky.social on the impact of government bond issuance on corporate bond issuance in #Brazil 🇧🇷
Tackles a key question for finance and development: how do you develop financial markets?
Tackles a key question for finance and development: how do you develop financial markets?
March 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Next @amanda-ds.bsky.social on the impact of government bond issuance on corporate bond issuance in #Brazil 🇧🇷
Tackles a key question for finance and development: how do you develop financial markets?
Tackles a key question for finance and development: how do you develop financial markets?
Next Shohini Kundu on historical corporate investment in #India 🇮🇳, comparing areas under direct colonial rule where existing economic institutions were destroyed to those under indirect rule
March 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Next Shohini Kundu on historical corporate investment in #India 🇮🇳, comparing areas under direct colonial rule where existing economic institutions were destroyed to those under indirect rule
Come to my #ASSA2025 session on #Finance #Development and #Growth!
Presenters: Muhammad Meki Nishant Vats @emilverner.bsky.social Rebecca De Simone
Discussants: Gautam Rao @raissafabregas.bsky.social Kristina Manysheva @sumudu.bsky.social
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconSky #EconConf
Presenters: Muhammad Meki Nishant Vats @emilverner.bsky.social Rebecca De Simone
Discussants: Gautam Rao @raissafabregas.bsky.social Kristina Manysheva @sumudu.bsky.social
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconSky #EconConf
January 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Come to my #ASSA2025 session on #Finance #Development and #Growth!
Presenters: Muhammad Meki Nishant Vats @emilverner.bsky.social Rebecca De Simone
Discussants: Gautam Rao @raissafabregas.bsky.social Kristina Manysheva @sumudu.bsky.social
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconSky #EconConf
Presenters: Muhammad Meki Nishant Vats @emilverner.bsky.social Rebecca De Simone
Discussants: Gautam Rao @raissafabregas.bsky.social Kristina Manysheva @sumudu.bsky.social
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconSky #EconConf
📢PhD students in Finance at #ASSA2025📢
AFA PhD student panel today at 4pm, chaired by Wei Jiang
Advice from Elisabeth Kempf, Song Ma, Nadya Malenko & me on coping with stress, bringing ideas to life, & expectations w/ supervisors and coauthors
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconConf #EconSky
AFA PhD student panel today at 4pm, chaired by Wei Jiang
Advice from Elisabeth Kempf, Song Ma, Nadya Malenko & me on coping with stress, bringing ideas to life, & expectations w/ supervisors and coauthors
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconConf #EconSky
January 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
📢PhD students in Finance at #ASSA2025📢
AFA PhD student panel today at 4pm, chaired by Wei Jiang
Advice from Elisabeth Kempf, Song Ma, Nadya Malenko & me on coping with stress, bringing ideas to life, & expectations w/ supervisors and coauthors
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconConf #EconSky
AFA PhD student panel today at 4pm, chaired by Wei Jiang
Advice from Elisabeth Kempf, Song Ma, Nadya Malenko & me on coping with stress, bringing ideas to life, & expectations w/ supervisors and coauthors
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
#EconConf #EconSky
Lots of people to thank for making this work possible: discussants Ben Charoenwong Francesco D'Acunto @gianiv.bsky.social Apoorv Gupta Bob Hunt Nagpurnanand Prabhala Michael Reher Tavneet Suri for very helpful feedback and suggestions
And many more for providing helpful comments:
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December 10, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Lots of people to thank for making this work possible: discussants Ben Charoenwong Francesco D'Acunto @gianiv.bsky.social Apoorv Gupta Bob Hunt Nagpurnanand Prabhala Michael Reher Tavneet Suri for very helpful feedback and suggestions
And many more for providing helpful comments:
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And many more for providing helpful comments:
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