Nova School of Business and Economics
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Campus de Campolide
Under the theme Economic Development in Africa, with particular emphasis on Portuguese-speaking countries, the NOVAFRICA@Nova SBE seminar series hosts a variety of international speakers.
Although intended primarily to Nova SBE’s faculty and students, the seminars are open to the public.
For more information about the seminar series NOVAFRICA@Nova SBE, please refer to the following schedule or contact Ms. Sofia Vala by email.
2nd Semester
FEB 03rd, 14h30
Room 306
Emilia Soldani,
New York University
What Took You So Long? How Public Kindergarten Affects Mothers & Future Careers
FEB 05th, 14h30
Room 306
Sara Hernandez,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Guns & Roses: The Impact of Female Employment on Violence in Colombia
FEB 09th, 14h30
Room 306
Jana Cahlikova,
CERGE-EI
Does the Study Abroad Experience Affect Attitudes Towards Other Nationalities?
FEB 11th, 14h30
Room 306
Alexander Coutts,
New York University
Testing Models of Belief Bias: An Experiment
FEB 13th, 14h30
Room 306
Luís Catão,
International Monetary Fund
World Food Prices, the Terms of Trade-Real Exchange Rate Nexus, and Monetary Policy
FEB 16th, 14h30
Room 306
Roberta Zíparo,
Paris School of Economics
Why do spouses communicate? Love or Interest? A model and some evidence from Cameroon
FEB 17th, 14h30
Room 306
Thimothée Demont,
CERDI, University of Auvergne
Microfinance Spillovers: a Model of Competition Informal Credit Markets with an Application to Indian Villages
FEB 18th, 14h00
Room 306
Michael Callen,
Harvard Kennedy School
Using Preference Parameter Estimates to Tailor Incentives: Evidence from Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan
FEB 25th, 14h00
Room 306
Mariapia Mendola,
UNIMIB
Sibling Rivalry and Migration
FEB 27th, 11h00
Room 306
Dan Biller,
World Bank
Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia’s Infrastructure Gap
MAR 11th, 14h00
Room 306
Vincent Pons,
Harvard University
Homogeneous teams and productivity – Experimental Evidence from Kenya
MAR 13th, 11h30
Room 308
Teresa Molina Millán,
Paris School of Economics
Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua
MAR 18th, 14h00
Room 306
Jonathan Goyette,
Université de Sherbrooke
Firms’ Growth, Corruption, Taxation and Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries
APR 8th, 14h00
Room 306
Horacio Larreguy,
Harvard University
Deliberate Disengagement: How Education Decreases Political Participation in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes
APR 22nd, 14h00
Room 306
Filipa Rodrigues,
Nova SBE
Leadership Paradoxes in Angolan organizations: Emic paradoxes, etic paradoxes, and paradox work
APR 29th, 14h00
Room 306
William Parienté,
Université Catholique de Louvain
Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from French Grocery Stores
MAY 8th, 14h00
Room 308
Hillel Rapoport,
Paris School of Economics
The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
MAY 13th, 14h00
Room 306
Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero,
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
When Do Voters Sanction Violence? A Vignette Experiment in Kenya
MAY 27th, 14h00
Room 308
Paulo Santos,
Monash University
Risk, Ambiguity and the Adoption of Innovati
1nd Semester
OCT 08th, 14h00
Room 306
Olivier Cadot,
HEC Lausanne
Big hits in exports: Growing by leaps and bounds
NOV 5th, 14h00
Room 306
Ameet Morjaria,
Harvard University
Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda’s Coffee Mills
NOV 26th, 14h00
Room 306
Gerald Willmann,
University of Bielefeld
Unequal Gains, Prolonged Pain:Dynamic Adjustment Costs and Protectionist Overshooting
DEC 10th, 14h00
Room 306
Christine Valente,
Universit y of Bristol
Primary Education Expansion and Quality of Schooling: Evidence from Tanzania
JAN 09th, 14h30
Room 306
Paul Collier,
University of Oxford
Effective organizations, why they are scarce in Africa, and what can be done about it
